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The measurement problem is the issue of explaining how the objective classical world emerges from a quantum one. Here we take a different approach. We assume that there is an objective classical system, and then ask that the standard rules…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Isaac Layton , Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies

An analysis of quantum measurement is presented that relies on an information-theoretic description of quantum entanglement. In a consistent quantum information theory of entanglement, entropies (uncertainties) conditional on measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 N. J. Cerf , C. Adami

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

We introduce a generalization of entanglement based on the idea that entanglement is relative to a distinguished subspace of observables rather than a distinguished subsystem decomposition. A pure quantum state is entangled relative to such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Howard Barnum , Emanuel Knill , Gerardo Ortiz , Rolando Somma , Lorenza Viola

Non-locality without entanglement is a rather counter-intuitive phenomenon in which information may be encoded entirely in product (unentangled) states of composite quantum systems in such a way that local measurement of the subsystems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Sarah Croke , Stephen M Barnett

Quantum measurement is a class of quantum channels that sends quantum states to classical states. We set up resource theories of quantum coherence and quantum entanglement for quantum measurements and find relations between them. For this,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-15 Ho-Joon Kim , Soojoon Lee

Preserving the precision of the parameter of interest in the presence of environmental decoherence is an important yet challenging task in dissipative quantum sensing. In this work, we study quantum metrology when the decoherence effect is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Jing Yang

A general framework is developed for separating classical and quantum correlations in a multipartite system. Entanglement is defined as the difference in the correlation information encoded by the state of a system and a suitably defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Hossein Partovi

In order to understand quantum decoherence of a quantum system due to its interaction with a large system behaving classically, we introduce the concept of adiabatic quantum entanglement based on the Born-Oppenhemeir approximation. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-17 C. P. Sun , D. L. Zhou , S. Yu , X. F. Liu

Quantifying entanglement is a work in progress which is important for the active field of quantum information and computation. A measure of bipartite pure state entanglement is proposed here, named entanglement coherence, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Neha Pathania , Tabish Qureshi

This thesis has three aims: (1) to clarify in detail the relation between the decoherence mechanism and the problem of definite outcomes, (2) to dispel common misconceptions about the measurement problem in quantum mechanics, and (3) to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Klaus Colanero

Coherence and entanglement are fundamental properties of quantum systems, promising to power the near future quantum computers, sensors and simulators. Yet, their experimental detection is challenging, usually requiring full reconstruction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Graeme Smith , John A. Smolin , Xiao Yuan , Qi Zhao , Davide Girolami , Xiongfeng Ma

We present the quantum measurement problem as a serious physics problem. Serious because without a resolution, quantum theory is not complete, as it does not tell how one should - in principle - perform measurements. It is physical in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 Nicolas Gisin

The evolution of a quantum system comprises two fundamental processes--continuous unitary dynamics and stochastic measurement-induced jumps. The latter are often viewed as a source of decoherence. Can two histories of such an evolution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-25 Parveen Kumar , Igor V. Gornyi , Yuval Gefen

Local unitary operations allow for a unifying approach to the quantification of quantum correlations among the constituents of a bipartite quantum system. For pure states, the distance between a given state and its image under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 M. Cianciaruso , S. M. Giampaolo , W. Roga , G. Zonzo , M. Blasone , F. Illuminati

We discuss why, contrary to claims recently made by P. W. Anderson, decoherence has not solved the quantum measurement problem.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Stephen L. Adler

We consider environment induced decoherence of quantum superpositions to mixtures in the limit in which that process is much faster than any competing one generated by the Hamiltonian $H_{\rm sys}$ of the isolated system. While the golden…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Daniel Braun , Fritz Haake , Walter T. Strunz

Interpretations of quantum measurement theory have been plagued by two questions, one concerning the role of observer consciousness and the other the entanglement phenomenon arising from the superposition of quantum states. We emphasize…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. E. H. Trainor , Charles J. Lumsden

An alternative approach to decoherence, named non-dynamical decoherence is developed and used to resolve the quantum measurement problem. According to decoherence, the observed system is open to a macroscopic apparatus(together with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-08 Yu-Lei Feng , Yi-Xin Chen

The quantum measurement problem still finds no consensus. Nonlocal interferometry provides an unprecedented experimental probe by entangling two photons in the "measurement state" (MS). The experiments show that each photon "measures" the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-14 Art Hobson