Abstract
The modification of the effect of interactions of a particle as a function of its preselected and postselected states is analyzed theoretically and experimentally. The universality property of this modification in the case of local interactions of a spatially preselected and postselected particle has been found. It allowed us to define an operational approach for the characterization of the presence of a quantum particle in a particular place: the way it modifies the effect of local interactions. The experiment demonstrating this universality property provides an efficient interferometric alignment method, in which the position of the beam on a single detector throughout one phase scan yields all misalignment parameters.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2881-2890 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |
Volume | 116 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 19 Feb 2019 |
Keywords
- Optics alignment
- Quantum experiments
- Quantum measurement
- Quantum physics
- Weak measurements
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General