which-path information

English

Noun

which-path information (uncountable)

  1. (quantum information) information about which path a particle has taken through space
    • 2005, Christopher Gerry, Peter Knight, Introductory Quantum Optics:
      Suppose we don't do any measurement on the k beam: we just remove detector . We shall now obtain no which-path information.
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