Comment on "past of a quantum particle revisited"

Uri Peleg, Lev Vaidman

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Abstract

The recent criticism of Vaidman's proposal for the analysis of the past of a particle in the nested interferometer is refuted. It is shown that the definition of the past of the particle adopted by Englert et al. [B. G. Englert et al., Phys. Rev. A 96, 022126 (2017)2469-992610.1103/PhysRevA.96.022126] is applicable only to a tiny fraction of photons in the interferometer which indeed exhibit different behavior. Their proof that all pre-and postselected particles behave this way, i.e., follow a continuous trajectory, does not hold, because it relies on the assumption that it is intended to prove.

Original languageEnglish
Article number026103
JournalPhysical Review A
Volume99
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

Funding

FundersFunder number
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and DevelopmentI-1275-303.14
Israel Science Foundation1311/14

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