Stochastic reduction in nonlinear quantum mechanics

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2001.0914MaRDI QIDQ4545376zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dorje C. Brody, Lane P. Hughston

Publication date 15 August 2002

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0011125

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian stochastic integralcomplex structureholomorphic sectional curvatureKähler diffusionnonlinear quantum mechanicsquantum measurementstochastic differential geometrysymplectic structure

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65) Stochastic integrals (60H05) Stochastic ordinary differential equations (aspects of stochastic analysis) (60H10) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Stochastic mechanics (including stochastic electrodynamics) (81P20) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

Abstract: Stochastic extensions of the Schrodinger equation have attracted attention recently as plausible models for state reduction in quantum mechanics. Here we formulate a general approach to stochastic Schrodinger dynamics in the case of a nonlinear state space of the type proposed by Kibble. We derive a number of new identities for observables in the nonlinear theory, and establish general criteria on the curvature of the state space sufficient to ensure collapse of the wave function.

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