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Popper's Experiment and Conditional Uncertainty Relations

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Application of the uncertainty principle to conditional measurements is investigated and found to be valid for measurements on separated sub-systems. In light of this, an apparent violation of the uncertainty principle obtained by Kim and Shih in their realization of Popper's experiment [1] is explained through analogy with a simple optical system.

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  1. Centre for Quantum Computation, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Parks Rd., OX1 3PU, United Kingdom

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Short, A.J. Popper's Experiment and Conditional Uncertainty Relations. Found Phys Lett 14, 275–284 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012238227977

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