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Experimental realization of Popper's Experiment: Violation of the Uncertainty Principle?

arXiv:quant-ph/9905039

Abstract

An entangled pair of photons (1 and 2) are emitted to opposite directions. A narrow slit is placed in the path of photon 1 to provide precise knowledge of its position on the axis and this also determines the precise position of its twin, photon 2, due to quantum entanglement. Is photon 2 going to experience a greater uncertainty in momentum, i.e., a greater , due to the precise knowledge of its position ? The experimental data shows for photon 2. Can this recent realization of the historical thought experiment of Karl Popper signal a violation of the uncertainty principle?

6 pages, twocolumn. Revised. To appear in Foundations of Physics