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Title: Experiments for Realising Pragmatic Protective Measurements

Abstract

I shall describe Aharonov, Anandan and Vaidman's proposal for protective measurements and their claims of providing an ontological interpretation for a certain class of wavefunctions through this type of measurement. I shall then describe work done with Tabish Qureshi which dispels this myth. I will show how the AAV proposal may be useful in a pragmatic sense and provide a concrete experimental setup using cold atoms. In particular, I will discuss how techniques developed by the Schmiedmayer group in Vienna for single-particle-sensitive imaging of freely propagating cold atoms could be adopted for this purpose. I will conclude with a brief description of my work with Anirban Das on adiabatic interactions between spin-systems and a proposal for its experimental realisation.

Authors:
 [1]
  1. Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai and CQIQC, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
21611650
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
AIP Conference Proceedings
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 1384; Journal Issue: 1; Conference: S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences silver jubilee symposium: 75 Years of quantum entanglement: foundations and information theoretic applications, Kolkata (India), 6-10 Jan 2011; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3635843; (c) 2011 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0094-243X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; ATOMS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PARTICLE INTERACTIONS; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SPIN; WAVE EQUATIONS; WAVE FUNCTIONS; ANGULAR MOMENTUM; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; INTERACTIONS; MECHANICS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PARTICLE PROPERTIES

Citation Formats

Dass, N D. Hari. Experiments for Realising Pragmatic Protective Measurements. United States: N. p., 2011. Web. doi:10.1063/1.3635843.
Dass, N D. Hari. Experiments for Realising Pragmatic Protective Measurements. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3635843
Dass, N D. Hari. 2011. "Experiments for Realising Pragmatic Protective Measurements". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3635843.
@article{osti_21611650,
title = {Experiments for Realising Pragmatic Protective Measurements},
author = {Dass, N D. Hari},
abstractNote = {I shall describe Aharonov, Anandan and Vaidman's proposal for protective measurements and their claims of providing an ontological interpretation for a certain class of wavefunctions through this type of measurement. I shall then describe work done with Tabish Qureshi which dispels this myth. I will show how the AAV proposal may be useful in a pragmatic sense and provide a concrete experimental setup using cold atoms. In particular, I will discuss how techniques developed by the Schmiedmayer group in Vienna for single-particle-sensitive imaging of freely propagating cold atoms could be adopted for this purpose. I will conclude with a brief description of my work with Anirban Das on adiabatic interactions between spin-systems and a proposal for its experimental realisation.},
doi = {10.1063/1.3635843},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/21611650}, journal = {AIP Conference Proceedings},
issn = {0094-243X},
number = 1,
volume = 1384,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2011},
month = {Fri Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 2011}
}