Measuring processes and repeatability hypothesis
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Abstract: Srinivas [Commun. Math. Phys. 71 (1980), 131-158] proposed a postulate in quantum mechanics that extends the von Neumann-Lueders collapse postulate to observables with continuous spectrum. His collapse postulate does not determine a unique state change, but depends on a particular choice of an invariant mean. To clear the physical significance of employing different invariant means, we construct different measuring processes of the same observable satisfying the Srinivas collapse postulate corresponding to any given invariant means. Our construction extends the von Neumann type measuring process with the meter being the position observable to the one with the apparatus prepared in a non-normal state. It is shown that the given invariant mean corresponds to the momentum distribution of the apparatus in the initial state, which is determined as a non-normal state, called a Dirac state, such that the momentum distribution is the given invariant mean and that the position distribution is the Dirac measure.
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