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Open Quantum Systems Decoherence

Comment on "Macroscopic violation of special relativity" by Nimtz and Stahlhofen [arXiv:0708.0681v1]

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Authors: Herbert G. Winful

Year

2007

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49051

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Preprint

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A recent paper by G. Nimtz and A. A. Stahlhofen [arXiv:0708.0681v1] makes the following claims: (1) that the authors have observed a macroscopic violation of special relativity, (2) that they have demonstrated quantum mechanical behavior of evanescent modes on a meter-length scale, and (3) that barriers are crossed in zero time, implying superluminal (faster than light), and indeed, infinite tunneling velocity. Here I suggest that all these claims are erroneous and are based on a misinterpretation of a purely classical measurement accurately described by Maxwell's equations.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:0709.2736 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2736 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2736

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