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We propose a technical reformulation of the measurement problem of quantum mechanics, which is based on the postulate that the final state of a measurement is classical. Unlike the usual formulation (in which the post-measurement state is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-15 Klaas Landsman , Robin Reuvers

I explore the possibility that a quantum system S may be described completely by the combination of its standard quantum state $|\psi\rangle$ and a (hidden) quantum state $|\phi\rangle$ (that lives in the same Hilbert space), such that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 S. J. van Enk

The properties which give quantum mechanics its unique character - unitarity, complementarity, non-commutativity, uncertainty, nonlocality - derive from the algebraic structure of Hermitian operators acting on the wavefunction in complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Tim Palmer

The physical origin of spacetime discreteness remains a central open problem in quantum gravity, with most existing approaches relying on specific microscopic structures or model-dependent assumptions. In this letter, spacetime discreteness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-26 Weihu Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

An unknown quantum state of a single system cannot be discovered, as a measured system is reprepare: it jumps into an eigenstate of the measured observable. This impossibility of finding the quantum state and other symptoms usually blamed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-05 Wojciech H. Zurek

In this paper we introduce a new model for the quantum-mechanical system of the hydrogen atom. We start with a four-dimensional Lorentzian quadratic space $(V,q)$ and let $C \subset V$ be the corresponding cone. The Hilbert space of our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Joseph Bernstein , Eyal Subag

We study the dynamics of classical and quantum systems undergoing a continuous measurement of position by schematizing the measurement apparatus with an infinite set of harmonic oscillators at finite temperature linearly coupled to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlo Presilla , Roberto Onofrio , Marco Patriarca

We propose a new model for a measurement of a characteristic of a microscopic quantum state by a large system that selects stochastically the different eigenstates with appropriate quantum weights. Unlike previous works which formulate a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-24 Fariel Shafee

The main purpose of this paper is to review the progress that has taken place so far in the search for a single unifying principle that harmonizes (i) the wave and particle natures of matter and radiation, both at the quantum and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-12 Partha Ghose

The dynamics of the expanding universe is analyzed in terms of the quantum geometrodynamical model. It is shown that the equations of quantum theory in the form of the eigenvalues equation similar to the stationary Schr\"{o}dinger equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-22 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

We constructed a Hilbert space representation of a contextual Kolmogorov model. This representation is based on two fundamental observables -- in the standard quantum model these are position and momentum observables. This representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Andrei Khrennikov

The influence of continuous measurements of energy with a finite accuracy is studied in various quantum systems through a restriction of the Feynman path-integrals around the measurement result. The method, which is equivalent to consider…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Ubaldo Tambini , Roberto Onofrio , Carlo Presilla

We introduce an efficient iterative method to prepare a target state in Hilbert spaces with high dimensionality using a combination of unitary evolution, measurements, and quantum Zeno dynamics. The latter confines the evolution within Zeno…

By building a general dynamical model for quantum measurement process,it is shown that the factorization of reduced evolution operator sufficiently results in the quantum mechanical realization of the wave packet collapse and the state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Chang_Pu Sun

We will give a new model for measurements of a quantum system such that the measuring apparatuses are described by a unital separable non-type I nuclear simple C$^*$-algebra equipped with certain unital endomorphisms and pure states. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-26 Akitaka Kishimoto

We consider a toy model for the study of monitored dynamics in a many-body quantum systems. We study the stochastic Schrodinger equation resulting from the continuous monitoring with a rate $\Gamma$ of a random hermitian operator chosen at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-02 Federico Gerbino , Pierre Le Doussal , Guido Giachetti , Andrea De Luca

A new approach to the problem of measurement in quantum mechanics is proposed. In this approach, the process of measurement is described in the Heisenberg picture and divided into two stages. The first stage is to transduce the measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanao Ozawa

The determination of the quantum state of a single system by protective observation is used to justify operationally a formulation of quantum theory on the quantum state space (projective Hilbert space) $\cal P$. Protective observation is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Anandan

The measurement problem of quantum mechanics concerns the question under which circumstances coherent wave evolution becomes disrupted to produce eigenstates of observables, instead of evolving superpositions of eigenstates. The problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Rainer Dick

The low-energy behaviour of 2 coupled nanomagnets or 2 coupled SQUIDs, interacting with their environment, can be described by the model of a ``Pair or Interacting Spins Coupled to an Environmental Sea'' (PISCES). These physical systems can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Dube , P. C. E. Stamp