Time and Ensemble Averages in Bohmian Mechanics

DOI10.1238/PHYSICA.REGULAR.069A00081zbMATH Open1044.81012arXivquant-ph/0412068MaRDI QIDQ4458458FDOQ4458458

Authors: Y. Aharonov, Noam Erez, Marlan O. Scully 

Publication date: 18 March 2004

Published in: Physica Scripta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that in the framework of one-dimensional Bohmian Quantum Mechanics[1], for a particle subject to a potential undergoing a weak adiabatic change, the time averages of the particle's positions typically differ markedly from the ensemble averages. We Apply this result to the case where the weak perturbing potential is the back-action of a measuring device (i.e. a protective measurement). It is shown that under these conditions, most trajectories never cross the position measured (as already shown for a particular example in [3]).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412068

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zbMATH Keywords

back-action of a measuring device

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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