Reply to Comment on "Null weak values and the past of a quantum particle" by D. Sokolovski

Abstract

We discuss the preceding Comment and conclude that the arguments given there against the relevance of null weak values as representing the absence of a system property are not compelling. We give an example in which the transition matrix elements that make the projector weak values vanish are the same ones that suppress detector clicks in strong measurements. Whether weak values are taken to account for the past of a quantum system or not depend on general interpretional commitments of the quantum formalism itself rather than on peculiarities of the weak measurements framework.

This is a Reply to the Comment arXiv:1709.02170 on our paper arXiv:1611.02780 [Phys. Rev. A 95, 032110 (2017)]