A computational model for quantum measurement

DOI10.1023/B:QINP.0000004123.82268.F4MaRDI QIDQ2573082zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 7 November 2005

Published in Quantum Information Processing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0302160

zbMATH Keywords

quantum information processingQuantum measurement theoryentanglement production

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: Is the dynamical evolution of physical systems objectively a manifestation of information processing by the universe? We find that an affirmative answer has important consequences for the measurement problem. In particular, we calculate the amount of quantum information processing involved in the evolution of physical systems, assuming a finite degree of fine-graining of Hilbert space. This assumption is shown to imply that there is a finite capacity to sustain the immense entanglement that measurement entails. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the system's unitary evolution becomes computationally unstable and the system suffers an information transition (`collapse'). Classical behaviour arises from the rapid cycles of unitary evolution and information transitions. Thus, the fine-graining of Hilbert space determines the location of the `Heisenberg cut', the mesoscopic threshold separating the microscopic, quantum system from the macroscopic, classical environment. The model can be viewed as a probablistic complement to decoherence, that completes the measurement process by turning decohered improper mixtures of states into proper mixtures. It is shown to provide a natural resolution to the measurement problem and the basis problem.

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