{
  "id": "1505.05052",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2015-05-17T17:05:20.000Z",
  "updated": "2015-05-17T17:05:20.000Z",
  "title": "Instantaneous measurements of nonlocal variables in relativistic quantum theory (a review)",
  "authors": [
    "Matthew J. Lake"
  ],
  "comment": "23 pages, 1 figure. Based on the text of a Part III essay",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "This article reviews six historically important papers in the development of the theory of measurement for nonlocal variables in quantum mechanics, with special emphasis the non violation of relativistic causality. Spanning more than seventy years, we chart the major developments in the field from the declaration, by Landau and Peierls in 1931, that measurement of nonlocal variables was impossible in the relativistic regime to the demonstration, by Vaidman in 2003, that all such variables \\emph{can} be measured instantaneously without violation of causality through an appropriate act of \"measurement\", albeit not of a standard projective (Von Neumann) type.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2015-05-17T17:05:20.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "relativistic quantum theory",
      "nonlocal variables",
      "instantaneous measurements",
      "article reviews",
      "quantum mechanics"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 23,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2015arXiv150505052L"
    }
  }
}