Experiments for Realising Pragmatic Protective Measurements
- Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai and CQIQC, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (India)
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.
- OSTI ID:
- 21611650
- Journal Information:
- AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1384, 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); ISSN 0094-243X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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