Stochastic reduction in nonlinear quantum mechanics (Q4545376)

In the generalization of quantum mechanics to nonlinear observables proposed by \textit{T. W. B. Kibble} [Commun. Math. Phys. 65, No. 2, 189-201 (1979; Zbl 0412.58006)], the state space is a general Kähler manifold \({\mathcal M}\) with metric \(g_{ab}\), symplectic structure \(\omega_{ab}\) and complex structure \(J_b^a\), and a real function \(F\) on \({\mathcal M}\) is said to be an observable if the Hamiltonian vector field \(w^{ab}\nabla_b F\) is an isometry. In this framework, the Schrödinger evolution of standard quantum mechanics has been generalized by \textit{L. P. Hughston} [Proc. R. Soc. Lond., Ser. A 452, No. 1947, 953-979 (1996; Zbl 0985.81015)] to a stochastic process \((x_t)\) on the nonlinear quantum state manifold \({\mathcal M}\) whose dynamical trajectories \((x_t)\) are governed by a stochastic differential equation of the form \[ dx_t^a = (2\omega^{ab}\nabla_b H - \tfrac 14 \sigma^2 \nabla^a V^H) dt + \sigma \nabla^a H dW_t, \] where \(V^H = g^{ab}\nabla_aF\nabla_bF\) is the dispersion associated with \(H\). In the paper under review, the authors show that the Hamiltonian process \((H_t) = (H(x_t))\) is a martingale which has a stochastic representation as the Brownian stochastic integral of \((V_t) = (V^H(x_t))\). This property is interpreted as a conservation of the energy of the system in a weak sense. A positivity condition on the holomorphic sectional curvature \({\mathcal K}_H\) of \({\mathcal M}\) is obtained for the wave function collapse, i.e. in order to have the \(\lim_{t\to \infty} V_t = 0\). A bound for the terminal energy variance \(E[(H_t - H_0)^2]\) and several properties of observables commuting with the Hamiltonian are also obtained.