The Counterfactual Photoelectric Effect
| Autor: | Ludu, A., Morris, J. A., Rugina, C. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | We explore a counterfactual protocol for energy transfer. A modified version of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer dissociates a photon's position and energy into separate channels, resulting in a photoelectric effect in one channel without the absorption of a photon. We use the quantum Zeno effect to extend our results by recycling the same photon through the system and obtain a stream of photoelectrons. If dissociation of properties such as energy can be demonstrated experimentally, there may be a variety of novel energy-related applications that may arise from the capacity to do non-local work. The dissociation of intrinsic properties, like energy, from elementary particles may also lead to theoretical discussions of the constitution of quantum objects. Comment: 9 pages, 3 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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