Telegraph signals as a solution to the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation
Quantum Physics
2012-04-26 v1
Abstract
A particle switching between two sides of a symmetric system in interaction with a continuum exhibits a telegraph-like time development without the need of the Born-Bohr principle of reduction on eigenstates of the measuring equipment. The origin of the telegraph signal is a very weak local coupling of the particle to the continuum which is connected with an enormous slow down of the particle motion. The proposed mechanism might serve as a useful simple model for studying decoherence effects due to coupling to the environment.
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@article{arxiv.1204.5606,
title = {Telegraph signals as a solution to the time dependent Schr\"odinger equation},
author = {D. Drakova and G. Doyen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.5606},
year = {2012}
}