Nonlocal appearance of a macroscopic angular momentum
arXiv:1206.5684 · doi:10.1007/s10773-011-1056-8
Abstract
We discuss a type of measurement in which a macroscopically large angular momentum (spin) is "created" nonlocally by the measurement of just a few atoms from a double Fock state. This procedure apparently leads to a blatant nonconservation of a macroscopic variable - the local angular momentum. We argue that while this gedankenexperiment provides a striking illustration of several counter-intuitive features of quantum mechanics, it does not imply a non-local violation of the conservation of angular momentum.
arXiv comment10 pages, 1 figure
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