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arxiv: 1710.11338 · v1 · pith:U5DOSNEZnew · submitted 2017-10-31 · 🪐 quant-ph

Complementarity and the pathological statistics of the quantum impossible

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Standard quantum physics prevents the existence of a joint statistics for complementary observables. Nevertheless, a joint distribution for complementary observables can be derived from their imperfect simultaneous measurement followed by a suitable data inversion. Quantumness is reflected then in the pathologies of the inferred distribution. We apply this program to the paradigmatic example of complementarity: the wave-particle duality in a Young interferometer.

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