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arxiv: 1805.12171 · v1 · pith:PGGEXFLXnew · submitted 2018-05-30 · 🪐 quant-ph

Comment on "Past of a quantum particle revisited"

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The recent criticism of Vaidman's propsal for the analysis of the past of a particle in the nested interferometer is refuted. It is shown that the definition of the past of the particle adopted by Englert et al. [Phys. Rev. A 96, 022126 (2017)] is applicable only to a tiny fraction of photons in the interferometer which indeed exhibit different behaviour. Their proof that all pre- and postselected particles behave this way, i.e. follow a continuous trajectory, does not hold, because it relies on the assumption that it is intended to prove.

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