Nonlinear unitary quantum collapse model with self-generated noise

DOI10.1088/1751-8121/AAB800zbMATH Open1390.81049arXiv1510.06160OpenAlexW2950756643MaRDI QIDQ4565049FDOQ4565049

Authors: Tamás Geszti 

Publication date: 7 June 2018

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

Abstract: Collapse models including some external noise of unknown origin are routinely used to describe phenomena on the quantum-classical border; in particular, quantum measurement. Although containing nonlinear dynamics and thereby exposed to the possibility of superluminal signaling in individual events, such models are widely accepted on the basis of fully reproducing the non-signaling statistical predictions of quantum mechanics. Here we present a deterministic nonlinear model without any external noise, in which randomness - instead of being universally present - emerges in the measurement process, from deterministic irregular dynamics of the detectors. The treatment is based on a minimally nonlinear von Neumann equation for a Stern-Gerlach or Bell-type measuring setup, containing coordinate and momentum operators in a self-adjoint skew-symmetric, split scalar product structure over the configuration space. The microscopic states of the detectors act as a nonlocal set of hidden parameters, controlling individual outcomes. The model is shown to display pumping of weights between setup-defined basis states, with a single winner randomly selected and the rest collapsing to zero. Environmental decoherence has no role in the scenario. Through stochastic modelling, based on Pearle's "gambler's ruin" scheme, outcome probabilities are shown to obey Born's rule under a no-drift or "fair-game" condition. This fully reproduces quantum statistical predictions, implying that the proposed non-linear deterministic model satisfies the non-signaling requirement. Our treatment is still vulnerable to hidden signaling in individual events, which remains to be handled by future research.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1510.06160

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum foundationscollapse modelsnonlinear evolutionsuperluminal signaling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Signal detection and filtering (aspects of stochastic processes) (60G35) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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