Quantum measurement and the Aharonov-Bohm effect with superposed magnetic fluxes

DOI10.1007/S11128-013-0652-3MaRDI QIDQ2454201zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kaća Bradonjić, J. Swain

Publication date 13 June 2014

Published in Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.1607

zbMATH Keywords

Aharonov-Bohmmagnetic fluxquantum measurement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05)

Abstract: We consider the magnetic flux in a quantum mechanical superposition of two values and find that the Aharonov-Bohm effect interference pattern contains information about the nature of the superposition, allowing information about the state of the flux to be extracted without disturbance. The information is obtained without transfer of energy or momentum and by accumulated nonlocal interactions of the vector potential $vecA$ with many charged particles forming the interference pattern, rather than with a single particle. We suggest an experimental test using already experimentally realized superposed currents in a superconducting ring and discuss broader implications.

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