Dynamical semigroup description of coherent and incoherent particle-matter interaction

DOI10.1007/BF02435772zbMATH Open0925.82009arXivquant-ph/9702051MaRDI QIDQ678630FDOQ678630

Authors: L. Lanz, Bassano Vacchini 

Publication date: 22 April 1999

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

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.

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)

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