Quantum Hamiltonians and stochastic jumps

DOI10.1007/S00220-004-1242-0zbMath1082.81059arXivquant-ph/0303056OpenAlexW2052466497MaRDI QIDQ2571131

Roderich Tumulka, Nino Zanghì, Sheldon Goldstein, Detlef Dürr

Publication date: 31 October 2005

Published in: Communications in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: With many Hamiltonians one can naturally associate a |Psi|^2-distributed Markov process. For nonrelativistic quantum mechanics, this process is in fact deterministic, and is known as Bohmian mechanics. For the Hamiltonian of a quantum field theory, it is typically a jump process on the configuration space of a variable number of particles. We define these processes for regularized quantum field theories, thereby generalizing previous work of John S. Bell [Phys. Rep. 137, 49 (1986)] and of ourselves [J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 36, 4143 (2003)]. We introduce a formula expressing the jump rates in terms of the interaction Hamiltonian, and establish a condition for finiteness of the rates.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0303056

zbMATH Keywords

vector bundlesintegral operatorstwo-dimensional quantum field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Two-dimensional field theories, conformal field theories, etc. in quantum mechanics (81T40) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

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