Two-particle asynchronous quantum correlation: wavefunction collapse acting as a beamsplitter

DOI10.1007/S10701-015-9965-7zbMATH Open1338.81029arXiv1405.0031OpenAlexW3106164790MaRDI QIDQ285976FDOQ285976

Authors: R. S. Browne, F. V. Kowalski 

Publication date: 19 May 2016

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

Abstract: A two-body quantum correlation is calculated for a particle reflecting from a moving mirror. Correlated interference results when the incident and reflected particle substates and their associated mirror substates overlap. Using the Copenhagen interpretation of measurement, an asynchronous joint probability density (PDF), which is a function both of the different positions and different times at which the particle and mirror are measured, is derived assuming that no interaction occurs between each measurement. Measurement of the particle first, in the correlated interference region, results in a splitting of the mirror substate into ones which have and have not reflected the particle. An analog of the interference from the Doppler effect for only measurements of the particle (a marginal PDF), in this two-body system, is shown to be a consequence of the asynchronous measurement. The simplification obtained for a microscopic particle reflecting from a mesoscopic or macroscopic mirror is used to illustrate asynchronous correlation interferometry. In this case, the small displacement between these mirror states can yield negligible environmental decoherence times. In addition, interference of these mirror states does not vanish in the limit of large mirror mass due to the small momentum exchange in reflecting a microscopic particle.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.0031

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum correlationasynchronous quantum correlationscorrelated interferencemeasurement theorytwo particle correlationtwo-body interferometrywavefunction collapse

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)

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• Decoherence, einselection, and the quantum origins of the classical
• Multi-time equations, classical and quantum

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