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EPL
Volume 115, Number 3, August 2016
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| Article Number | 30005 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| Section | General | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/115/30005 | |
| Published online | 06 September 2016 | |
Measuring unrecorded measurement
Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology - Haifa 32000, Israel
Received: 27 April 2016
Accepted: 10 August 2016
Projective (von Neumann) measurement of an operator (i.e., a dynamical variable) selected from a prescribed set of operators is termed unrecorded measurement (URM) when both the selected operator and the measurement outcome are unknown, i.e., “lost”. Within classical physics a URM is completely inconsequential: the state is unaffected by measurement. Within quantum physics a measurement leaves a mark. The present study provides protocols that allow the retrieval of some of the data lost in a URM. The study is shown as supportive of viewing quantum measurement as made up of both classical-like and pure quantum components.
PACS: 03.65.Ta – Foundations of quantum mechanics; measurement theory / 03.67.Hk – Quantum communication
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