Revisiting Hardy’s Paradox: Counterfactual Statements, Real Measurements, Entanglement and Weak Values
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Yakir Aharonov, Alonso Botero, Sandu Popescu, Benni Reznik, Jeff Tollaksen (a) School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel. (b) Department of Physics, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. (c) Department of Physics, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 7784-4242, USA. (d) Centro Internacional de F́ısica, Ciudad Universitaria, Bogotá, Colombia. (e) H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TL, UK (f) BRIMS, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Stoke Gifford, Bristol BS12 6QZ, UK (g) Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215.
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تاریخ انتشار 2002