Quantum State Diffusion: from Foundations to Applications
Quantum Physics
2009-09-25 v1
Abstract
Deeper insight leads to better practice. We show how the study of the foundations of quantum mechanics has led to new pictures of open systems and to a method of computation which is practical and can be used where others cannot. We illustrate the power of the new method by a series of pictures that show the emergence of classical features in a quantum world. We compare the development of quantum mechanics and of the theory of (biological) evolution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9701024,
title = {Quantum State Diffusion: from Foundations to Applications},
author = {Nicolas Gisin and Ian C Percival},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9701024},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
18 pages, TeX, 6 Figures available from the authors. To appear in "Festschrift" in honor of Abner Shimony