Quantum noise and stochastic reduction

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/4/008zbMATH Open1089.81026arXivquant-ph/0508217OpenAlexW3098307989WikidataQ62272463 ScholiaQ62272463MaRDI QIDQ3373196FDOQ3373196

Authors: Dorje C. Brody, Lane P. Hughston 

Publication date: 13 March 2006

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In standard nonrelativistic quantum mechanics the expectation of the energy is a conserved quantity. It is possible to extend the dynamical law associated with the evolution of a quantum state consistently to include a nonlinear stochastic component, while respecting the conservation law. According to the dynamics thus obtained, referred to as the energy-based stochastic Schrodinger equation, an arbitrary initial state collapses spontaneously to one of the energy eigenstates, thus describing the phenomenon of quantum state reduction. In this article, two such models are investigated: one that achieves state reduction in infinite time, and the other in finite time. The properties of the associated energy expectation process and the energy variance process are worked out in detail. By use of a novel application of a nonlinear filtering method, closed-form solutions--algebraic in character and involving no integration--are obtained for both these models. In each case, the solution is expressed in terms of a random variable representing the terminal energy of the system, and an independent noise process. With these solutions at hand it is possible to simulate explicitly the dynamics of the quantum states of complicated physical systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0508217

Recommendations

• Efficient simulation of quantum state reduction
• Finite-time stochastic reduction models
• Exactly solvable quantum state reduction models with time-dependent coupling
• Lévy models for collapse of the wave function
• Stochastic reduction in nonlinear quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) General mathematical topics and methods in quantum theory (81Q99)

Cited In (25)

• Stochastic particle annihilation: a model of state reduction in relativistic quantum field theory
• The EPR experiment in the energy-based stochastic reduction framework
• Noise sensing via stochastic quantum Zeno
• Exactly solvable quantum state reduction models with time-dependent coupling
• Quantum noise. A handbook of Markovian and non-Markovian quantum stochastic methods with applications to quantum optics.
• Time-convergent random matrices from mean-field pinned interacting eigenvalues
• Quantum resources in Heisenberg XX model under noisy environment
• Stochastic Schrödinger evolution over piecewise enlarged filtrations
• From irrevocably modulated filtrations to dynamical equations over random networks
• Stochastic sequential reduction of commutative Hamiltonians
• Gaussian random bridges and a geometric model for information equilibrium
• Understanding quantum measurement from the solution of dynamical models
• Quantum stochastic processes as models for state vector reduction
• Generalized stochastic Schrödinger equations for state vector collapse
• Modelling election dynamics and the impact of disinformation
• Martingale models for quantum state reduction
• State reduction dynamics in a simplified QED model
• Dynamical reduction models
• Relaxation of quantum states under energy perturbations
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Efficient simulation of quantum state reduction
• A family of interacting particle systems pinned to their ensemble average
• Environmental influence on the measurement process in stochastic reduction models
• Lévy models for collapse of the wave function
• On Doob h-transformations for finite-time quantum state reduction

This page was built for publication: Quantum noise and stochastic reduction

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3373196)