What is the value of an observable between pre- and postselection?

DOI10.1016/j.physleta.2004.01.041zbMath1118.81374arXivquant-ph/0308137MaRDI QIDQ2383406

Lars M. Johansen

Publication date: 8 October 2007

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0308137

zbMATH Keywords

loss function; Bayes estimator; weak values; exact uncertainty relation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81P05: General and philosophical questions in quantum theory

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