Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

A dynamical quantum Cheshire Cat effect and implications for counterfactual communication

  • Yakir Aharonov,
  • Eliahu Cohen,
  • Sandu Popescu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24933-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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In quantum mechanics, counterfactual behaviours are generally associated with particles being affected by events taking place where they can’t be found. Here, the authors consider extended quantum Cheshire cat scenarios where a particle can be influenced in regions where only its disembodied property has entered.