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Frascati 2006, Beatrix C. Hiesmayr
Testing QM in Testing QM in Particle PhysicsParticle Physics
Physics Particle Physics Quantum Theory
bybyBeatrix C. HiesmayrBeatrix C. Hiesmayr
Institute for Theoretical PhysicsUniversity of Vienna
Bell inequalitiesBell inequalities How to measure entanglement or decoherence?How to measure entanglement or decoherence?
““Kaonic” Quantum ErasersKaonic” Quantum Erasers “Erasing the Past and Impacting the Future”
Bohr’s Complementarity in two-path interferometyBohr’s Complementarity in two-path interferomety (kaons are doubleslits given freely by Nature)
Duality in Particle PhysicsDuality in Particle Physics
•Bertlmann, Durstberger, Hiesmayr, Phys. Rev. A 68 (2003) 012111.
•Bertlmann, Grimus, Hiesmayr,Phys. Rev. D 60 (1999) 114032.
Bramon,Garbarino, Hiesmayr, Phys. Rev. A 69 (2004) 022112.
•Hiesmayr, Found. of Phys. Lett. 14 (2001).•Bertlmann, Bramon, Garbarino, Hiesmayr, Phys. Lett. A 332, (2004) 355.•Bertlmann, Grimus, Hiesmayr, Phys. Lett. A 289 (2001) 21.•Bertlmann, Hiesmayr, Phys. Rev. A 63 (2001) 062112.
•Bramon, Garbarino, Hiesmayr, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 020405.
•Bramon, Garbarino, Hiesmayr, Phys. Rev. A 68 (2004). 062111
Bramon, Garbarino, Hiesmayr, Eur. J. Phys. C 32 (2004) 377.
KEK (Japan) & DANE?
Aharanov & Zubairy: Science 307:875, 2005
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Outline
R. Feynman:“The double slit
contains the only mystery.”
“If there is any place where we have a chance to test the main principles of
quantum mechanics in the purest way---does the superposition of amplitudes
work or doesn't it?---this is it.”
R. Feynman about neutral kaons:
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Neutral kaons viewed a little differently:
2 20 12
( )S L
S Limt tiL
t t mSK e K e Kt
Kaon in time: short-lived state long-lived state
10 1S
L
10 ...decay width of K1/ 600 ...decay width of K
0.5 ...mass difference
S s
L S
L S Sm m m
„A kaon is a kind of double slit“
Strangeness:
Mass-eigenstates:
Feynman diagram
0 0
0 0
S K K
S K K
,S LK K
0 12 S LK K K
Bramon,Garbarino, Hiesmayr, Phys. Rev. A 69 (2004) 022112.
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“Erasing the past and impacting the future”
1801 Thomas Young:Photons interfere!
Interference lost because photon watched (gain which way info)!
Erasing the which way info brings interference back!No wonder Einstein would be confused!
1982 Drühl & Scully:
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ComplementarityComplementarity
The observation of an interference pattern and the adquisition of which-way information are mutually exclusive.
Quantum systems possess properties that are equally real but mutually exclusive!
any decay mode observed before t+4.8 S are identified as KS at time t
Misidentification: few parts in 10-3!
“Passive” measurement:Sensitive to the decay modes:
2 ’s are identified as KS
3 ’s are identified as KL
Misidentification: few parts in 10-3!
Strangeness basis: 000 KK
Lifetime basis: 102.3
1Re2 3
2
LS KK
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(A) Active Eraser with active measurements
object system
meter systemS, tl S, tr
0
T, tr0
left (object) right (meter)
1.Setup (matter block remove):
active S active T2.Setup (matter block inserted):
active S active S
source
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(B) Partially active eraser with active measurements
object system
meter systemS, tl S, tr
0
left (object) right (meter)
active S active T, active S
source
T
partially active choice due to instability of kaon
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(C) Passive eraser with passive measurements
object system
meter systemS, tl
S
left (object) right (meter)
active S passive T, passive S
source
T T
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(D) Passive eraser with passive measurements
left (??object??) right (??meter??)
passive T, passive S passive T, passive S
T TS
S
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Summary of “kaonic” eraser
• remarkably all these QE options lead to the same probabilities!•this is even true regardless the temporal ordering•demonstrates nicely the very nature of QE: sorting events
Up to our opinion: It should be possible to test it at DANE!
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Questions to the experimenters:
•Are active measurements possible?•Which initial entangled states can be produced (besides the antisymmetric Bell state)?•Can the CP state |K1> be somehow measured? •Or can another superposition be measured?•Can the long lived state |KL> be “boosted”?