Books

O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, Quantum Measurement of a Single System (Wiley, New York, NY, 2001), pp. 136.
Slides

Journal Papers

  1. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Fundamental Quantum Limit to External Force Detection via Monitoring a Single Harmonic Oscillator or Free Mass," Physics Letters A 263 (4–6), pp. 226–231 (December 1999).
  2. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Impossibility of Determining the Unknown Wavefunction of a Single Quantum System: Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements, Measurements without Entanglement and Adiabatic Measurements," Fortschritte der Physik 46 (6–8), pp. 817–827 (November 1998).
  3. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Reply to the Comment on 'Protective Measurement of the Wave Function of a Single Squeezed Harmonic Oscillator State,' " Physical Review A 56 (1), pp. 1057–1059 (July 1997).
  4. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Quantum Zeno Effect and the Impossibility of Determining the Quantum State of a Single System," Physical Review A Rapid Communications 55 (4), pp. R2499–R2502 (April 1997).
  5. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Protective Measurement of the Wave Function of a Single Squeezed Harmonic Oscillator State," Physical Review A Rapid Communications 53 (5), R2911–R2914 (May 1996).
  6. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Inhibition of the Measurement of the Wave Function of a Single Quantum System in Repeated Weak Quantum Nondemolition Measurements," Physical Review Letters 74 (21), pp. 4106–4109 (May 1995).
  7. O. Zachar and O. Alter, "Interpretation of the Curious Results of the New Quantum Formalism of Pre- and Post-Selected Systems," Foundations of Physics 21 (7), pp. 803–820 (July 1991).

Book Chapters

  1. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Inhibition of the Measurement of the Wavefunction of a Single Quantum System and the Projection Postulate," in Quantum Physics, Chaos Theory and Cosmology, edited by M. Namiki, I. Ohba, K. Maeda and Y. Aizawa (American Institute of Physics, New York, NY, 1996), pp. 151–172.
  2. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "The Quantum Zeno Effect of a Single System is Equivalent to the Indetermination of the Quantum State of a Single System," in Quantum Interferometry, edited by F. De Martini, G. Denardo and Y. Shih (VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 1996), pp. 539–544.
  3. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "The Unknown Wavefunction of a Single System Cannot Be Inferred Using Repeated Quantum Measurements," in Quantum Coherence and Decoherence, edited by K. Fujikawa and Y. A. Ono (Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1996), pp. 31–34.
  4. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Can We Measure the Wave Function of a Single Wave Packet of Light?: Brownian Motion and Continuous Wave Packet Collapse in Repeated Weak Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements," in Fundamental Problems in Quantum Theory, edited by D. M. Greenberger and A. Zeilinger (New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY, 1995), vol. 755, pp. 103–109.

Technical Reports

  1. O. Alter and O. Zachar, "Achilles and the Turtle in the Maze of the Weak Measurement," Tel Aviv University Report TAUP 90-1832 (1990).

Plenary Lectures and Invited Talks

  1. O. Alter, "Impossibility of Determining the Quantum Wavefunction of a Single System and Fundamental Limit to External Force Detection," 1998 Meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP) of the American Physical Society (Santa Fe, NM, May 27–30, 1998), invited talk E5.01.
  2. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements, Measurements without Entanglement and Adiabatic Measurements," Workshop on Fundamental Problems in Quantum Theory (Baltimore, MD, August 4–7, 1997), invited talk.
  3. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Fundamental Limit to External Force Detection due to the Impossibility of Determining the Quantum Wavefunction of a Single System," 5th International Conference on Squeezed States and Uncertainty Relations (FICSSUR 1997) (Balatonfüred, Hungary, May 27–31, 1997), plenary lecture.

Contributed Talks and Posters

  1. O. Alter, "Impossibility of Determining the Unknown Wavefunction of a Single Quantum System and Fundamental Quantum Limit to External Force Detection," International Symposium on Quantum Optics and Mesoscopic Physics (Atsugi, Japan, July 13–14, 1998), contributed talk 14.08.
  2. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Impossibility of Determining the Quantum State of a Single System and Intrinsic Limit to External Force Detection," International Symposium on Quantum Measurements with New Experimental Techniques (Stanford, CA, March 20–21, 1997), contributed poster R1.
  3. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "The Quantum Zeno Effect of a Single System," 2nd Adriatico Research Conference on Quantum Interferometry (Trieste, Italy, March 4–8, 1996), contributed poster.
  4. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "The Unknown Wavefunction of a Single System Cannot be Inferred Using Repeated Quantum Measurements," European Research Conference on Quantum Optics (Davos, Switzerland, September 24–29, 1994), contributed poster C1.
  5. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Measurement of the Wavefunction of a Single Wavepacket of Light," Fifth International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology (ISQM 1995) (Hatoyama, Japan, August 21–24, 1995), contributed talk.
  6. O. Alter and Y. Yamamoto, "Can We Measure the Photon-Number Distribution of a Single Wavepacket of Light?," New York Academy of Sciences Conference on Fundamental Problems in Quantum Theory (Baltimore, MD, June 18–22, 1994), contributed talk 3E57.
  7. O. Alter and S. E. Harris, "Population Trapping with Matched Pulses," Workshop on Atomic Coherence and Interference (Crested Butte, CO, July 26–29, 1993), contributed talk TE3.