An effective toy model in Mn(C) for selective measurements in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1063/1.4998014zbMATH Open1373.81035arXiv1707.09821OpenAlexW3123891258MaRDI QIDQ4592884FDOQ4592884

Authors: Péter Vecsernyés 

Publication date: 9 November 2017

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

Abstract: The non-selective and selective measurements of a self-adjoint observable $A$ in quantum mechanics are interpreted as `jumps' of the state of the measured system into a decohered or pure state, respectively, characterized by the spectral projections of $A$. However, one may try to describe the measurement results as asymptotic states of a dynamical process, where the non-unitarity of time evolution arises as an effective description of the interaction of the measured system with the measuring device. The dynamics we present is a two-step dynamics: the first step is the non-selective measurement or decoherence, which is known to be described by the linear, deterministic Lindblad equation. The second step is a process from the resulted decohered state to a pure state, which is described by an effective non-linear `randomly chosen' toy model dynamics: the pure states arise as asymptotic fixed points, and their emergent probabilities are the relative volumes of their attractor regions.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09821

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22)

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