Can the quantum measurement problem be resolved within the framework of Schroedinger dynamics and quantum probability?

zbMATH Open1208.81024arXiv0710.3315MaRDI QIDQ3085705FDOQ3085705

Authors: Geoffrey L. Sewell 

Publication date: 31 March 2011

Abstract: We provide an affirmative answer to the question posed in the title. Our argument is based on a treatment of the Schroedinger dynamics of the composite of a quantum microsystem, S, and a macroscopic measuring apparatus, I, consisting of N interacting particles. The pointer positions of this apparatus are represented by orthogonal subspaces of its representative Hilbert space that are simultaneous eigenspaces of coarse-grained macroscopic observables. By taking explicit account of their macroscopicality via a large deviation principle, we prove that, for a suitably designed apparatus I, the evolution of the composite (S+I) leads both to the reduction of the wave packet of S and to a one-to-one correspondence between the resultant state of this microsystem and the pointer position of I, up to utterly negligible corrections that decrease exponentially with N.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3315

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zbMATH Keywords

large deviationsmacroscopic decoherencereduction of wave packet of microsystemmacroscopic phase cell as pointer positionsSchroedinger dynamics of microsystem-cum-measuring instrument

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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