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Relational Quantum Measurements, Information and State Collapse

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

The quantum measurement problem considered for measuring system (MS) consist of measured state S (particle), detector D and information processing device (observer) O. It's shown that O states selfreference structure results in principal nonobservability of MS interference terms which discriminate pure and mixed S states. Such observables restriction permit to construct for MS states subjective representation (SR) which describes probabilistic evolution for measurement events observed by OO and his subjective information about S values. SR is dual and nonequivalent to MS Hilbert space HH for external observer OO'. Due to it SR evolution is compatible with Schrodinger linear MS evolution observed by OO'. It's argued that SR evolution corresponds to S state collapse for individual events observed by OO.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0006104,
  title  = {Relational Quantum Measurements, Information and State Collapse},
  author = {S. Mayburov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0006104},
  year   = {2007}
}

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16 pages, Latex, (Talk given on QCM&C conference, Capri, July 2000, to appear in proceedings)