Experimental realization of popper's experiment: Violation of the uncertainty principle?

Authors
Citation
Yh. Kim et Y. Shih, Experimental realization of popper's experiment: Violation of the uncertainty principle?, FOUND PHYS, 29(12), 1999, pp. 1849-1861
Citations number
19
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
FOUNDATIONS OF PHYSICS
ISSN journal
00159018 → ACNP
Volume
29
Issue
12
Year of publication
1999
Pages
1849 - 1861
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-9018(199912)29:12<1849:EROPEV>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
An entangled pair of photons (1 and 2) are emitted in opposite directions. A narrow slit is placed in the path of photon 1 to provide the precise know ledge of its position on the y-asis and this also determines the precise y- position of its twin, photon 2, due to quantum entanglement. Is photon 2 go ing to experience a greater uncertainty in momentum, that is, a greater Del ta p(y) because of the precise knowledge of its position y? The experimenta l data show Delta y Delta p(y) < h for photon 2. Can this recent realizatio n of the thought experiment of Karl Popper signal at violation of the uncer tainty principle?