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Instability-induced random branching of deterministic dynamics is discussed as a possible mechanism of random wave function collapse. In the case of two level systems, the Born probability rule emerges as the simplest linear solution to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-09 Isaak Mayergoyz

The concept of fundamental dynamic uncertainty (multivaluedness) developed in Parts I-III of this work and used to establish the consistent understanding of genuine chaos in Hamiltonian systems provides also causal description of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 Andrei P. Kirilyuk

During a continuous measurement, quantum systems can be described by a stochastic Schr\"odinger equation which, in the appropriate limit, reproduces the von Neumann wave-function collapse. The average behavior on the ensemble of all…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Carlo Presilla , Ubaldo Tanbini

Quantum computers exhibit an inherent randomness, so it seems natural to consider them for procedural content generation. In this work, a quantum version of the famous (classical) wave function collapse algorithm is proposed. This quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-05 Raoul Heese

The most peculiar, specifically quantum, features of quantum mechanics --- quantum nonlocality, indeterminism, interference of probabilities, quantization, wave function collapse during measurement --- are explained on a logical-geometrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Yuri Orlov

We present a theory of discontinuous motion of particles in continuous space-time. We show that the simplest nonrelativistic evolution equation of such motion is just the Schroedinger equation in quantum mechanics. This strongly implies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rui Qi

We present a set of exact system solutions to a model we developed to study wave function collapse in the quantum spin measurement process. Specifically, we calculated the wave function evolution for a simple harmonic oscillator of spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-13 Li Hua Yu

A local, deterministic toy model for quantum mechanics is introduced and discussed. It is demonstrated that, when averaged over the hidden variables, the model produces the same predictions as quantum mechanics. In the model considered…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Sandro Donadi , Sabine Hossenfelder

The dynamics of a quantum system with internal degrees of freedom undergoing spontaneous collapse in the position basis are analysed; e.g., neutral mesons or neutrinos. Surprisingly, the value of the Heaviside function $\theta(x)$ at $x=0$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 K. Simonov , B. C. Hiesmayr

In the era of proliferation of large language and image generation models, the phenomenon of "model collapse" refers to the situation whereby as a model is trained recursively on data generated from previous generations of itself over time,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Elvis Dohmatob , Yunzhen Feng , Julia Kempe

Ever since we have been in the possession of quantum theories without observers, such as Bohmian mechanics or the Ghirardi-Rimini-Weber (GRW) theory of spontaneous wave function collapse, a major challenge in the foundations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Roderich Tumulka

Modelling stochastic systems has many important applications. Normal form coordinate transforms are a powerful way to untangle interesting long term macroscale dynamics from detailed microscale dynamics. We explore such coordinate…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-11-13 A. J. Roberts

Could we hear the pop of a wave-function collapse, and if so, what would it sound like? There exist reconstructions or modifications of quantum mechanics (collapse models) where this archetypal signature of randomness exists and can in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-31 Antoine Tilloy

Recent emerging interest in experiments of single-polymer dynamics urge computational physicists to revive their understandings, particularly in the nonequilibrium context. Here we briefly discuss the currently evolving approaches of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Suman Majumder , Henrik Christiansen , Wolfhard Janke

The possibility of a fundamental consistency between the basic quantum principles and reduction (so-called wave function reduction) is reexamined. The mathematical description of an organized macroscopic device is constructed explicitly as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-15 Roland Omnes

The collapse of a quantum state can be understood as a mathematical way to construct a joint probability density even for operators that do not commute. We can formalize that construction as a non-commutative, non-associative collapse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 Peter Morgan

A quantum theory for the Markovian dynamics of an open system under the unsharp observation which is continuous in time, is developed within the CCR stochastic approach. A stochastic classical equation for the posterior evolution of quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. P. Belavkin

Turbulent dynamical systems characterized by both a high-dimensional phase space and a large number of instabilities are ubiquitous among many complex systems in science and engineering. The existence of a strange attractor in the turbulent…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2018-02-23 Andrew J. Majda , Di Qi

It is shown how to obtain state vectors associated with measurements on the separated subystems of an entangled state, revealing how a single wavefunction encodes a set of statistical measurement outcomes. The result explains why…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Grgeory D. Scholes

We give general overview of a novel approach, recently developed by us, to address the issue black hole information paradox. This alternative viewpoint is based on theories involving modifications of standard quantum theory, known as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-30 Sujoy K. Modak , Daniel Sudarsky