Impossibility of the counterfactual computation for all possible outcomes.
A recent proposal for counterfactual computation [O. Hosten et al. Nature (London) 439, 949 (2006) is analyzed. It is argued that the method does not provide counterfactual computation for all possible outcomes. The explanation involves a novel paradoxical feature of pre- and postselected quantum particles: The particle can reach a certain location without being on the path that leads to this location.
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School of Physics and Astronomy, Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv 69978, Israel.