Many-body manifestation of interaction-free measurement: The Elitzur-Vaidman bomb
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Oded Zilberberg,1 Alessandro Romito,2 and Yuval Gefen3 1Theoretische Physik, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, ETH Zurich, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland 2Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems and Fachbereich Physik, Freie Universität Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Germany 3Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel (Received 3 December 2015; revised manuscript received 9 February 2016; published 9 March 2016)
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