can also constitute a measurement. The thought experiment was first posed in 1953 by Mauritius Renninger. The non-detection of a particle in one arm of an interferometer implies that the particle must be in the other arm. It can be understood to be a refinement of the paradox presented in the Mott problem.

The Mott problem

The Mott problem concerns the paradox of reconciling the spherical wave function describing

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