Information transfer implies state collapse

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/39/31/014zbMATH Open1095.81011arXivquant-ph/0602140OpenAlexW3105894516MaRDI QIDQ5484482FDOQ5484482

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Publication date: 17 August 2006

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

Abstract: We attempt to clarify certain puzzles concerning state collapse and decoherence. In open quantum systems decoherence is shown to be a necessary consequence of the transfer of information to the outside; we prove an upper bound for the amount of coherence which can survive such a transfer. We claim that in large closed systems decoherence has never been observed, but we will show that it is usually harmless to assume its occurrence. An independent postulate of state collapse over and above Schroedinger's equation and the probability interpretation of quantum states, is shown to be redundant.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602140

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

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• Causality, measurement, and elementary interactions
• Unifying decoherence and the Heisenberg principle
• From quantum no-cloning to wave-packet collapse
• Information transfer in individual quantum measurements
• Energy-time uncertainty relations in quantum measurements
• Destruction of states in quantum mechanics

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