Local properties of entanglement and application to collapse

DOI10.1007/S10701-013-9750-4zbMATH Open1291.81054arXiv1309.3472OpenAlexW1976996782MaRDI QIDQ2015102FDOQ2015102

Roland Omnès

Publication date: 18 June 2014

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: When a quantum system is macroscopic and becomes entangled with a microscopic one, this entanglement is not immediately total, but gradual and local. A study of this locality is the starting point of the present work and shows unexpected and detailed properties in the generation and propagation of entanglement between a measuring apparatus and a microscopic measured system. Of special importance is the propagation of entanglement in nonlinear waves with a finite velocity. When applied to the entanglement between a macroscopic system and its environment, this study yields also new results about the resulting disordered state. Finally, a mechanism of wave function collapse is proposed as an effect of perturbation in the growth of local entanglement between a measuring system and the measured one by waves of entanglement with the environment.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1309.3472

zbMATH Keywords

entanglementdecoherencewave function collapsekinetic physics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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