Observing quantum trajectories: From Mott's problem to quantum Zeno effect and back
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Publication:1692579
DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2016.08.003zbMATH Open1377.81016arXiv1606.06065OpenAlexW2465916773WikidataQ62568704 ScholiaQ62568704MaRDI QIDQ1692579FDOQ1692579
Authors: Eliahu Cohen, Maurice de Gosson, Basil Hiley 
Publication date: 10 January 2018
Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: The experimental results of Kocsis et al., Mahler et al. and the proposed experiments of Morley et al. show that it is possible to construct "trajectories" in interference regions in a two-slit interferometer. These results call for a theoretical re-appraisal of the notion of a "quantum trajectory" first introduced by Dirac and in the present paper we re-examine this notion from the Bohm perspective based on Hamiltonian flows. In particular, we examine the short-time propagator and the role that the quantum potential plays in determining the form of these trajectories. These trajectories differ from those produced in a typical particle tracker and the key to this difference lies in the active suppression of the quantum potential necessary to produce Mott-type trajectories. We show, using a rigorous mathematical argument, how the active suppression of this potential arises. Finally we discuss in detail how this suppression also accounts for the quantum Zeno effect.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06065
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