Timeline for Is it physically meaningful to combine a photon's position state space with its polarization state space?
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| Jan 28, 2021 at 12:45 | vote | accept | Tamás V | ||
| Jan 28, 2021 at 12:35 | comment | added | Emilio Pisanty | Yes. With very few exceptions, for any two accessible states of any system, their superposition is a physically allowed state. | |
| Jan 28, 2021 at 12:26 | comment | added | Tamás V | Thank you. Sorry if I'm asking the obvious, but I don't have background in physics. Along the same lines, I guess it is then also meaningful to combine the electron's position state with its spin, and have superpositions of such combined states, right? | |
| Jan 28, 2021 at 12:22 | history | answered | Emilio Pisanty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |