How the result of a measurement of a component of the spin of a spin-<i>1/2</i>particle can turn out to be 100 论文

详细信息

发表期刊/会议

Physical Review Letters

发表日期

1988-04-04

发表年份

1988

摘要

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.