Complementarity and uncertainty in Mach-Zehnder interferometry and beyond

Physics Reports

Volumn 435, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-31

  Busch, Paul ^a,b   Shilladay, Christopher ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Complementarity principle; Erasure; Joint measurement; Mach Zehnder interferometer; Path marking; Uncertainty principle

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750427885     PISSN: 03701573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physrep.2006.09.001     Document Type: Review

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