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In this work we consider basic principles and problems of the standard quantum mechanical formalism. Especially we consider final measurement or detection procedure (collapse) as a quantum-classical continuous phase transition with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Vladan Pankovic

The structure of Collapse Models is investigated in the framework of Quantum Measure Theory, a histories-based approach to quantum mechanics. The underlying structure of coupled classical and quantum systems is elucidated in this approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-19 Fay Dowker , Yousef Ghazi-Tabatabai

I study the quantum mechanics of a spin interacting with an ``apparatus''. Although the evolution of the whole system is unitary, the spin evolution is not. The system is chosen so that the spin exhibits loss of quantum coherence, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-08 Andreas Albrecht

In this paper I present a thought experiment that gives different results depending on whether or not the wavefunction collapses. Since the wavefunction does not obey the Schrodinger equation during the collapse, conservation laws are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-29 Sivapalan Chelvaniththilan

We address the statistics of continuous weak linear measurement on a few-state quantum system that is subject to a conditioned quantum evolution. For a conditioned evolution, both the initial and final states of the system are fixed: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-23 A. Franquet , Yuli V. Nazarov

We show that including both the system and the apparatus in the quantum description of the measurement process, and using the concept of conditional probabilities, it is possible to deduce the statistical operator of the system after a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-29 R. Laura , L. Vanni

We consider a closed quantum system subject to a stochastic resetting process. The generic expression for the resulting density operator is formulated for arbitrary resetting dynamics, fully characterised by the distribution of times…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Francisco J. Sevilla , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

Dynamical quantum phase transitions (DQPTs) occur at times when a quantum state exhibits a nonanalytic change in its return probability. This can be viewed as the probability of collapsing the evolved state to the initial state by quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Guan-Hua Chen , Guo-Yi Zhu

Recently, it has been argued that quantum mechanics is complete, and that quantum states vectors are necessarily in one-to-one correspondence with the elements of reality, under the assumptions that quantum theory is correct and that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-24 GianCarlo Ghirardi , Raffaele Romano

This note starts with a recapitulation of what people call the ``Measurement Problem'' of Quantum Mechanics (QM). The dissipative nature of the quantum-mechanical time-evolution of averages of states over large ensembles of identical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Jürg Fröhlich , Alessandro Pizzo

Under a time-dependent perturbation it is common to calculate the transition probability in going from from one eigenstate to another eigenstate of a quantum system. In this work we study the transition in going from a \textit{linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Ariel Edery

It is shown that probabilistic treatment of quantum mechanics can be coordinated with causality of all physical processes. The physical interpretation of quantum-mechanical phenomena such as process of measurement and collapse of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Slavnov D. A

The convenience of coherent state representation is discussed from the viewpoint of what is in a broad sense called the measurement problem in quantum mechanics. Standard quantum theory in coherent state representation is intrinsically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Lajos Diosi

The 'collapse' of the wave function in a general measuring process is analyzed by a pure quantum mechanical (QM) approach. The problem of the delayed choice and Welcher-Weg (WW) experiments is analyzed for Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometer.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-27 Y. Ben-Aryeh

It is shown that the quantum fluctuation dissipation theorem can be considered as a mathematical formulation in the spectral representation of Onsager hypothesis on the regression of fluctuations in physical systems. It is shown that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Shiktorov , E. Starikov , V. Gruzinskis , L. Reggiani , L. Varani , J. C. Vaissiere

Concept of entangled probability distribution of several random variables is introduced. These probability distributions describe multimode quantum states in probability representation of quantum mechanics. Example of entangled probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Vladimir N. Chernega , Olga V. Man'ko , Vladimir I. Man'ko

I provide a simple derivation of the Born rule as giving a classical probability, that is, the ratio of the measure of favorable states of the system to the measure of its total possible states. In classical systems, the probability is due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

Some inequalities for probability vector are discussed. The probability representation of quantum mechanics where the states are mapped onto probability vectors (either finite or infinite dimensional) called the state tomograms is used.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 V. N. Chernega , V. I. Man'ko

A brief review is given of the present state of an approach to consistency between basic quantum mechanics and a unique macroscopic reality, with no assumption of branching in the state of the universe. The main new idea consists in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-08 Roland Omnes

A meaning is given to the state of a system that is consistent with the trans-coordinate physics previously proposed by the author. The collapse of such a state is described using the previously proposed q-rules. A Hamiltonian is defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-18 Richard A. Mould