{ "id": "1409.5386", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-09-18T17:38:17.000Z", "updated": "2014-09-18T17:38:17.000Z", "title": "Comment on \"How the result of a single coin toss can turn out to be 100 heads\"", "authors": [ "Lev Vaidman" ], "comment": "Comment on arXiv:1403.2362", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "In a recent Letter [PRL 113, 120404 (2014)] Ferrie and Combes claimed to show \"that weak values are not inherently quantum, but rather a purely statistical feature of pre- and post-selection with disturbance.\" In this Comment I will show that this claim is not valid. It follows from Ferrie and Combes misunderstanding of the concept of weak value.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-09-18T17:38:17.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "single coin toss", "weak value", "inherently quantum", "purely statistical feature", "post-selection" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1409.5386V" } } }