I was telling my friend about the delayed choice quantum erasure experiment and it occurred to me that my understanding of erasing the path information conflicts with my understanding of the preservation of quantum information. If a photon traveled down one of two possible paths to arrive at a beam splitter, the information about which path it took is lost. Is the information about the original path excluded from quantum unitarity?
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