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Quantum optical test of observation and complementarity in quantum mechanics
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We propose and analyze experiments designed to probe the way in which the measurement process (the presence of a detector) influences the investigated system. These experiments are based on the fact that number states of the radiation field can be generated by the use of the micromaser and cavity quantum electrodynamics. It is shown that ``which-path'' (particle) information rules out interference (wave) effects due to the system-detector correlations and not due to a randomization of phase. Specific experiments based on neutron interferometry and quantum-beat techniques taken together with the micromaser are suggested and analyzed.
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“The excitation of an internal degree of freedom of a subsystem does not necessarily lead to decoherence as the reader might think at first. A counter example are Welcher Weg detectors[23], in which atoms can be excited in micromasers without momentum transfer and necessary loss of quantum coherence.”
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- Authors
- Scully, M. O., & Walther, H.
- Affiliations
- University of New Mexico (US)
- ORCID
- Scully, Marlan O.
- Venue
- Physical Review A
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1989-05-01
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 5229-5236
- ISSN
- 0556-2791 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2041410197
- Cited by
- 138
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2019: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 2 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 8.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Physical Review A (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum Information and Cryptography
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Quantum optics and atomic interactions
- Keywords
- quantum measurement, complementarity, which-path information, wave-particle duality, micromaser, cavity quantum electrodynamics, Fock states, neutron interferometry, quantum beats, interference suppression
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