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If we admit that quantum mechanics (QM) is universal theory, then QM should contain also some description of classical mechanical systems. The presented text contains description of two different ways how the mathematical description of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Pavel Bóna

The dynamical status of isolated quantum systems, partly due to the linearity of the Schrodinger equation is unclear: Conventional measures fail to detect chaos in such systems. However, when quantum systems are subjected to observation --…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Salman Habib , Kurt Jacobs , Kosuke Shizume

The possibility of determining the state of a quantum system after a continuous measurement of position is discussed in the framework of quantum trajectory theory. Initial lack of knowledge of the system and external noises are accounted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. C. Doherty , S. M. Tan , A. S. Parkins , D. F. Walls

The kind of information provided by a measurement is determined in terms of the correlation established between observables of the apparatus and the measured system. Using the framework of quantum measurement theory, necessary and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Paul Busch , Pekka Lahti

We consider a continuous measurement of a two-level system (double-dot) by weakly coupled detector (tunnel point contact nearby). While usual treatment leads to the gradual system decoherence due to the measurement, we show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander N. Korotkov

We consider the dynamics of continuously measured many-body chaotic quantum systems. Focusing on the observable of state purification, we analytically describe the limits of strong and weak measurement rate, where in the latter case…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2022-07-15 A. Altland , M. Buchhold , S. Diehl , T. Micklitz

Measurement-driven transitions between extensive and sub-extensive scaling of the entanglement entropy receive interest as they illuminate the intricate physics of thermalization and control in open interacting quantum systems. Whilst this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-25 Marcin Szyniszewski , Alessandro Romito , Henning Schomerus

A novel theory of hybrid quantum-classical systems is developed, utilizing the mathematical framework of constrained dynamical systems on the quantum-classical phase space. Both, the quantum and the classical descriptions of the respective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 N. Buric , D. B. Popovic , S. Prvanovic , M. Radonjic

It is argued that every measurement is made in a certain scale. The scale in which present measuments are made is called present scale which gives present knowledge. Quantities at the limits to present measurement may be observables in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zhen Wang

Axiomatic approach to measurement theory is developed. All the possible statistical properties of apparatuses measuring an observable with nondegenerate spectrum allowed in standard quantum mechanics are characterized.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanao Ozawa

The experimental realization of successive non-demolition measurements on single microscopic systems brings up the question of ergodicity in Quantum Mechanics (QM). We investigate whether time averages over one realization of a single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Mariano Bauer , Pier A. Mello

It is shown that it is possible to measure the Schr\"odinger wave of a single quantum system. This provides a strong argument for associating physical reality with a quantum state of a single system in sharp contrast with the usual approach…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Yakir Aharonov , Lev Vaidman

In quantum sensing and metrology, an important class of measurement is the continuous linear measurement, in which the detector is coupled to the system of interest linearly and continuously in time. One key aspect involved is the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-26 Haixing Miao

As one of the main pillars of quantum technologies, quantum metrology aims to improve measurement precision using techniques from quantum information. The two main strategies to achieve this are the preparation of nonclassical states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Matteo Fadel , Noah Roux , Manuel Gessner

Understanding the quantum measurement problem is closely associated with understanding wave function collapse. Motivated by Breuer's claim that it is impossible for an observer to distinguish all states of a system in which it is contained,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2020-12-24 B. K. Jennings

Quantum measurements can produce randomness arising from the uncertainty principle. When measuring a state with von Neumann measurements, the intrinsic randomness can be quantified by the quantum coherence of the state on the measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-17 Hao Dai , Boyang Chen , Xingjian Zhang , Xiongfeng Ma

We provide a summary of both seminal and recent results on typical entanglement. By typical values of entanglement, we refer here to values of entanglement quantifiers that (given a reasonable measure on the manifold of states) appear with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-05 Oscar C. O. Dahlsten , Cosmo Lupo , Stefano Mancini , Alessio Serafini

Starting from a new principle inspired by quantum tomography rather than from Born's rule, this paper gives a self-contained deductive approach to quantum mechanics and quantum measurement. A suggestive notion for what constitutes a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 Arnold Neumaier

We propose a solid-state experiment to study the process of continuous quantum measurement of a qubit state. The experiment would verify that an individual qubit stays coherent during the process of measurement (in contrast to the gradual…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Alexander N. Korotkov

Entanglement within a given device provides a potential resource for quantum information processing. Entanglement between system and environment leads to decoherence (thus suppressing non-classical features within the system) but also opens…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guenter Mahler , Jochen Gemmer , Mathias Michel