Asking Twice, Yet Knowing Nothing
Optics & Photonics Focus
Volume 4 Story 2 - 29/1/2009

Schematic representation of a weak measurement

The particle is trapped in a potential (black) and can be in any superposition of the two states (red and blue). From the blue state, there is a probability to tunnel (dashed blue) out of the potential and being measured by the detector (green).
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Schematic representation of a weak measurement. The particle is trapped in a potential (black) and can be in any superposition of the two states (red and blue). From the blue state, there is a probability to tunnel (dashed blue) out of the potential and being measured by the detector (green).