{ "id": "1410.8510", "version": "v1", "published": "2014-10-30T19:31:38.000Z", "updated": "2014-10-30T19:31:38.000Z", "title": "Comment on: How the result of a single coin toss can turn out to be 100 heads (arXiv:1403.2362)", "authors": [ "Aharon Brodutch" ], "comment": "Comment on arXiv:1403.2362", "categories": [ "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "The authors of [PRL 113 120404 (2014)] produce a classical measurement scheme that supposedly exhibits `anomalous' weak values. I show that their model is flawed due to an incorrect calculation of the noise parameter that follows from an incorrect definition of the weak value.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-10-30T19:31:38.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "03.65.Ta", "02.50.Cw", "03.67.-a" ], "keywords": [ "single coin toss", "weak value", "incorrect definition", "noise parameter", "incorrect calculation" ], "tags": [ "journal article" ], "publication": { "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.118901", "journal": "Physical Review Letters", "year": 2015, "month": "Mar", "volume": 114, "number": 11, "pages": 118901 }, "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 0, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2015PhRvL.114k8901B" } } }