Quantum Jumps as Decoherent Histories

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.78.1833MaRDI QIDQ4492465zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Todd A. Brun

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9606025

zbMATH Keywords

decoherent historiesquantum jumpquantum open systems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum optics (81V80) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: Quantum open systems are described in the Markovian limit by master equations in Lindblad form. I argue that common ``quantum jumps techniques, which solve the master equation by unraveling its evolution into stochastic trajectories in Hilbert space, correspond closely to a particular set of decoherent histories. This is illustrated by a simple model of a photon counting experiment.

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