TY - JOUR
T1 - Reply to Gao's "On Uffink's criticism of protective measurements"
AU - Uffink, Jos
PY - 2013/11/1
Y1 - 2013/11/1
N2 - Gao (this issue) presents a critical reconsideration of a paper I wrote (. Uffink, 1999) on the subject of protective measurement. Here, I take the occasion to reply to his objections. In particular, I retract my previous claim to have proven that in a protective measurement, the observable being measured on a system must commute with the system's Hamiltonian. However, I do maintain the viability of the interpretation I offered for protective measurements, as well as my analysis of a thought experiment proposed by Aharonov, Anandan and Vaidman against Gao's objections.
AB - Gao (this issue) presents a critical reconsideration of a paper I wrote (. Uffink, 1999) on the subject of protective measurement. Here, I take the occasion to reply to his objections. In particular, I retract my previous claim to have proven that in a protective measurement, the observable being measured on a system must commute with the system's Hamiltonian. However, I do maintain the viability of the interpretation I offered for protective measurements, as well as my analysis of a thought experiment proposed by Aharonov, Anandan and Vaidman against Gao's objections.
KW - Interpretation of quantum mechanics
KW - Protective measurements
KW - Quantum measurement
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U2 - 10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.07.002
DO - 10.1016/j.shpsb.2013.07.002
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:84888428111
SN - 1355-2198
VL - 44
SP - 519
EP - 523
JO - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
JF - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B - Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
IS - 4
ER -