2 scientists think they have defeated the uncertainty principle

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Researchers at the University of Toronto claim to have challenged the long-standing uncertainty principle by directly measuring the disturbance caused by observing a single photon’s polarization. The study, led by Ph.D. candidate Lee Rozema, suggests that Heisenberg's original interpretation may have been overly pessimistic. The findings were published in Physical Review Letters and could have significant implications for quantum physics. The discussion highlights skepticism about the robustness of this research, with references to existing threads on the topic. The conversation indicates a need for further exploration and validation of these claims in the scientific community.
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The principle has bedeviled quantum physicists for nearly a century, until recently, when researchers at the University of Toronto demonstrated the ability to directly measure the disturbance and confirm that Heisenberg was too pessimistic. "We designed an apparatus to measure a property – the polarization – of a single photon. We then needed to measure how much that apparatus disturbed that photon," says Lee Rozema, a Ph.D. candidate in Professor Aephraim Steinberg's quantum optics research group at U of T, and lead author of a study published this week in Physical Review Letters.
 
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Time reversal invariant Hamiltonians must satisfy ##[H,\Theta]=0## where ##\Theta## is time reversal operator. However, in some texts (for example see Many-body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics an introduction, HENRIK BRUUS and KARSTEN FLENSBERG, Corrected version: 14 January 2016, section 7.1.4) the time reversal invariant condition is introduced as ##H=H^*##. How these two conditions are identical?

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