Quantum Limitations on Measurement of Magnetic Flux

Asher Peres
Phys. Rev. Lett. 61, 2019 – Published 31 October 1988
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Abstract

If the magnetic flux trapped in a superconducting quantum-interference device has observable values ±h2e, which alternate in time, and if the value at a given moment is unknown, it is in general impossible to determine that value without affecting the results of subsequent observations.

  • Received 16 May 1988

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.61.2019

©1988 American Physical Society

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Asher Peres

  • Department of Physics, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel

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Comment on ‘‘Quantum limitations on measurement of magnetic flux’’

A. J. Leggett and Anupam Garg
Phys. Rev. Lett. 63, 2159 (1989)

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Vol. 61, Iss. 18 — 31 October 1988

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