Stochastic Schr\"odinger evolution and symmetric K\"ahler manifolds of low dimension
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We consider the manifold-valued, stochastic extension of the Schr\"odinger equation introduced by Hughston (Proc.Roy.Soc.Lond. A452 (1996) 953) in a manifestly covariant, differential-geometric framework, and examine the resulting quantum evolution on some specific examples of K\"ahler manifolds with many symmetries. We find conditions on the curvature for the evolution to be a `collapse process' in the sense of Brody and Hughston (Proc.Roy.Soc.Lond. A458 (2002) 1117) or, more generally, a `reduction process', and give examples that satisfy these conditions. For some of these examples, we show that the L\"uders projection postulate admits a consistent interpretation and remains valid in the nonlinear regime.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0212107,
title = {Stochastic Schr\"odinger evolution and symmetric K\"ahler manifolds of low dimension},
author = {L. P. Hughston and K. P. Tod},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0212107},
year = {2007}
}
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latex, 23 pages