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We discuss experimental situations that consist of multiple preparation and measurement stages. This leads us to a new approach to quantum mechanics. In particular, we introduce the idea of multi-time quantum states which are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Y. Aharonov , S. Popescu , J. Tollaksen , L. Vaidman

We study the structure of quantum Markov Processes from the point of view of product systems and their representations.

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paul S. Muhly , Baruch Solel

.We expound an alternative to the Copenhagen interpretation of the formalism of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics. The basic difference is that the new interpretation is formulated in the language of epistemological realism. The {\psi}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Arthur Jabs

The quantum mechanical measurement process is considered. A hypothetical concept of irrational dynamical variables is proposed. A possible definition of measurement is discussed along with a mathematical method to calculate experimental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-09 Christopher Engelhardt

We propose a method to "create" a new measurement output by exciting the system with a high-frequency oscillation. This new "virtual" measurement may be useful to facilitate the design of a suitable control law. The approach is especially…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Pascal Combes , Al Kassem Jebai , François Malrait , Philippe Martin , Pierre Rouchon

A quasi-static process is realized in a purely quantum-mechanical model which is described by oscillator (or particle) systems having relative-phase interactions. Time development of a mixture of two oscillator (or particle) systems which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 T. Kobayashi

We present some conjectured approximations for spin expectations in a Quantum Heisenberg system. The conjectures are based on numerical experimentation, some theoretical insights and underpinning, and aesthetic value. We hope theoretical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Federbush

The physics laboratory-works creating and operating computer simulations experience is described. A significant amount of laboratory works can be classified as a "black box". The studied physical phenomenon is hidden from direct…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-03-27 Andrey Zaikin , Igor Suhanov

Feynman's light microscope invites us to reconsider what we thought we knew about quantum reality. Rather than invoking wavefunction collapse to predict the loss of fringes in a monitored interferometer, Feynman analyzes the problem in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Brian C. Odom

We propose a reformulation of quantum mechanics in which the distinction between definite and indefinite becomes the fundamental primitive. Inspired by suggestions of Heisenberg, Schrodinger and Dyson that the past can't be described in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-21 Lee Smolin , Clelia Verde

The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory is investigated from a philosophical point of view. It is justified the opinion that the philosophical attitude the Copenhagen interpretation is based on is in principle inevitable for a real…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2009-11-05 Martin Kober

We argue here for a more conceptual or qualitative approach in the introductory teaching of Quantum Physics which is built on the basis of epistemological and ontological discussions and as such is a valuable tool mainly in the initial and…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Ostermann , S. D. Prado

Tensor universality often implies that multi-partite quantum-state processing is determined by what happens in totally disentangled cases. In independent systems relative time direction for the parts is arbitrary. This hints that time may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 George Svetlichny

A class of unitary operations generated by idealized, semiclassical fields is studied. The operations implemented by sharp potential kicks are revisited and the possibility of performing them by softly varying external fields is examined.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Bogdan Mielnik

The LSND and MiniBoone seeming anomalies in neutrino oscillations are usually attributed to physics beyond the Standard model. It is, however, possible that they may be an artefact of the theoretical treatment of particle oscillations that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-25 C. Anastopoulos , N. Savvidou

We show that virtual particles, despite being unobservable, can be described by quantum operators which can be interpreted under certain conditions as valid qubit quantum states. For a single virtual fermion, we prove that such a state is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-31 Gonçalo M. Quinta

Contrary to counterfactual definiteness quantum theory teaches us that measuring instruments are not passively reading predetermined values of physical observables. Counterfactual definiteness allows proving Bell inequalities. If the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-28 Marian Kupczynski

Various fidelity measures can be defined between two quantum processes especially when at least one of them is non-unitary. In this paper we consider two such measures of state averaged process fidelity, put forward an efficient procedure…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-11 Joydip Ghosh

Several stochastic processes with virtual particles in two dimensional space-time are presented whose mean field equations coincide with Schr\"odinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and the quantum mechanic equation for a photon. These processes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Alberto C. de la Torre

Some of the so-called imponderables and counterintuitive puzzles associated with the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics appear to have alternate, parallel explanations in terms of nonlinear dynamics and chaos. These include the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wm. C. McHarris