TY - JOUR
T1 - Comment on "past of a quantum particle revisited"
AU - Peleg, Uri
AU - Vaidman, Lev
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 American Physical Society.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.026103
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevA.99.026103
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AN - SCOPUS:85062457006
SN - 2469-9926
VL - 99
JO - Physical Review A
JF - Physical Review A
IS - 2
M1 - 026103
ER -