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Projection hypothesis in the setting for the quantum Jarzynski equality

Quantum Physics 2025-01-03 v8 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Projective quantum measurement is a theoretically accepted process in modern quantum mechanics. However, its projection hypothesis is widely regarded as an experimentally established empirical law. In this paper, we combine a previous result regarding the realization of a Hamiltonian process of the projection hypothesis in projective quantum measurement, where the complete set of the orbital observables of the center of mass of a macroscopic quantum mechanical system is restricted to a set of mutually commuting classical observables, and a previous result regarding the work required for an event reading (i.e., the informatical process in projective quantum measurement). Then, a quantum thermodynamic scheme is proposed for experimentally testing these two mutually independent theoretical results of projective quantum measurement simultaneously.

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@article{arxiv.2212.07785,
  title  = {Projection hypothesis in the setting for the quantum Jarzynski equality},
  author = {Eiji Konishi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.07785},
  year   = {2025}
}

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20 pages, 3 figures, latex, published version

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