Link between quantum measurement and the i\epsilon\ term in the QFT propagator

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.90.125020arXiv1306.1948WikidataQ62501157 ScholiaQ62501157MaRDI QIDQ6242537FDOQ6242537

Publication date: 8 June 2013

Abstract: Mensky has suggested to account for "continuous measurement" by attaching to a path integral a weight function centered around the classical path that the integral assigns a probability amplitude to. We show that in fact this weight function doesn't have to be viewed as an additional ingredient put in by hand. It can be derived instead from the conventional path integral if the infinitesimal term iepsilon in the propagator is made finite; the "classical trajectory" is proportional to the current.

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