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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Measuring non-commuting observables of a single photon

Fabrizio Piacentini, Alessio Avella, Eliahu Cohen, Rudi Lussana, Federica Villa, M. P. Levi, Alberto Tosi, Franco Zappa, Marco Gramegna, G. Brida, Ivo Pietro Degiovanni, Marco Genovese

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

In this presentation we will show how we performed, for the first time, a sequential weak value evaluation of two incompatible observables on a single photon.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2016.ftu3c.7

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