Dynamical semigroup description of coherent and incoherent particle-matter interaction

DOI10.1007/BF02435772MaRDI QIDQ678630zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors L. Lanz, Bassano Vacchini

Publication date 22 April 1999

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9702051

zbMATH Keywords

dynamical semigroupnonrelativistic quantum field theorystatistical experiments with single microsystemssuperoperators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: The meaning of statistical experiments with single microsystems in quantum mechanics is discussed and a general model in the framework of non-relativistic quantum field theory is proposed, to describe both coherent and incoherent interaction of a single microsystem with matter. Compactly developing the calculations with superoperators, it is shown that the introduction of a time scale, linked to irreversibility of the reduced dynamics, directly leads to a dynamical semigroup expressed in terms of quantities typical of scattering theory. Its generator consists of two terms, the first linked to a coherent wavelike behaviour, the second related to an interaction having a measuring character, possibly connected to events the microsystem produces propagating inside matter. In case these events breed a measurement, an explicit realization of some concepts of modern quantum mechanics ("effects" and "operations") arises. The relevance of this description to a recent debate questioning the validity of ordinary quantum mechanics to account for such experimental situations as, e.g., neutron-interferometry, is briefly discussed.

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