Feynman’s approach to negative probability in quantum mechanics
- 1 March 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 49 (3) , 1562-1566
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.49.1562
Abstract
Feynman introduces the concept of negative probability in the context of Young’s double-slit experiment and in doing so sheds a new light on the problem. However, there are, as Feynman notes, conceptual problems as well as insights associated with this point of view. The micromaser which-path (Welcher-Weg) detector eliminates these conceptual difficulties. We also emphasize that the concept of negative probability yields useful insight into the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) problem.Keywords
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