Position measurements obeying momentum conservation

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Busch, Paul ^a   Loveridge, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL LIMITATIONS; MOMENTUM CONSERVATIONS; QUANTUM OBJECT; TOTAL MOMENTUM;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

POSITION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 79952819884     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.110406     Document Type: Article

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