Novel Relationships between Superoscillations, Weak Values, and Modular Variables

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Abstract

We present several novel, unexpected relationships between superoscillations, weak values and modular variables. For example, we show how an uncertain phase, which characterizes the process of projecting a particle onto a superoscillatory region, can create the high-momentum. If an uncertain phase can localize the particle, then a definite phase can also localize it. This introduction of a relative phase corresponds to a non-local exchange of modular variables. We also present a new way to measure the nonlocality in the equation of motion for modular variables by using weak measurements.

Authors

  • Jeff Tollaksen

    Center for Quantum Studies, Department of Physics and Department of Computational and Data Sciences, College of Science, George Mason University