Re: QM Measurement Problem

From: Keith Blow <kb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:23:01 -0500 (EST)

Doug Sweetser wrote:

have a conjugate. Anyone recall the conjugate for number of photons?
It is the light intensity?

Doug

The conjugate to photon number is phase. This brings up a whole bunch of problems associated with the fact that the phase is only defined modulo 2pi so the maximum uncertainty is 2pi. Another one is what the eigenstates are that satisfy the minimum uncertainty condition.

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Keith Blow

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