Aspects of complementarity and uncertainty

DOI10.1142/S0219749916400311zbMATH Open1349.81034arXiv1407.6326WikidataQ60033895 ScholiaQ60033895MaRDI QIDQ2832602FDOQ2832602

Authors: Radhika Vathsan, Tabish Qureshi 

Publication date: 11 November 2016

Published in: International Journal of Quantum Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The two-slit experiment with quantum particles provides many insights into the behaviour of quantum mechanics, including Bohr's complementarity principle. Here we analyze Einstein's recoiling slit version of the experiment and show how the inevitable entanglement between the particle and the recoiling slit as a which-way detector is responsible for complementarity. We derive the Englert-Greenberger-Yasin duality from this entanglement, which can also be thought of as a consequence of sum-uncertainty relations between certain complementary observables of the recoiling slit. Thus, entanglement is an integral part of the which-way detection process, and so is uncertainty, though in a completely different way from that envisaged by Bohr and Einstein.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6326

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zbMATH Keywords

uncertaintycomplementaritydualityentanglementtwo-slit experiment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05)

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