Phys. Rev. Lett. 60, 1351–1354 (1988)How the result of a measurement of a component of the spin of a spin-1/2 particle can turn out to be 100Received 30 June 1987; published in the issue dated 4 April 1988 We have found that the usual measuring procedure for preselected and postselected ensembles of quantum systems gives unusual results. Under some natural conditions of weakness of the measurement, its result consistently defines a new kind of value for a quantum variable, which we call the weak value. A description of the measurement of the weak value of a component of a spin for an ensemble of preselected and postselected spin-(1/2 particles is presented. © 1988 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.1351
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.60.1351
PACS:
03.65.Bz
See AlsoComment: A. J. Leggett, Comment on ‘‘How the result of a measurement of a component of the spin of a spin-(1/2 particle can turn out to be 100’’, Phys. Rev. Lett. 62, 2325 (1989). |
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