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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

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

In the present paper we consider the problem of description of an arbitrary generalized quantum measurement with outcomes in a measurable space. Analyzing the unitary invariants of a measuring process, we present the most general form of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-30 Elena R. Loubenets

The monitoring of the three independent components of the angular momentum (or spin) of a quantum system by its environment that does not isolate any preferred orientation is modelled in two different ways. One describes the dynamics by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Dorje C. Brody , Eva-Maria Graefe , Rishindra Melanathuru

The paper gives a systematic review of the basic ideas of (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics including all changes that result from previous work of the authors. This shows that the new theory is self-consistent and (in certain sense)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-24 Petr Hajicek , Jiri Tolar

The measurement postulate of quantum theory stands in conflict with the laws of thermodynamics and has evoked debate regarding what actually constitutes a measurement. With the help of modern quantum statistical mechanics, we take the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Emanuel Schwarzhans , Felix C. Binder , Marcus Huber , Maximilian P. E. Lock

Generally, the measurement process consists in coupling a system to a detector that can give a continuous output. However, it may be interesting to use as a detector a system with a discrete spectrum, especially in view of applications to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-06 Antonio Di Lorenzo

Finding a physically consistent approach to modelling interactions between classical and quantum systems is a highly nontrivial task. While many proposals based on various mathematical formalisms have been made, most of these efforts run…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-05 Marcel Reginatto , Sebastian Ulbricht

The characterization of quantum correlations is crucial to the development of new quantum technologies and to understand how dramatically quantum theory departs from classical physics. Here we systematically study single- and multiparticle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Rejane Alves de Brito , Bertúlio de Lima Bernardo

The so-called quantum measurement problems are solved from a new perspective. One of the main observations is that the basic entities of our world are {\it particles}, elementary or composite. It follows that each elementary process, hence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Kenichi Konishi

A discrete quantum process is defined as a sequence of local states $\rho_t$, $t=0,1,2,...$, satisfying certain conditions on an $L_2$ Hilbert space $H$. If $\rho =\lim\rho_t$ exists, then $\rho$ is called a global state for the system. In…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-06-02 Stan Gudder

In this paper, we present a thought experiment that demonstrates that the equivalence of quantum reduced states and statistical mixed states of ensembles is not merely a simple mathematical formulation in quantum mechanics, but rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-18 Zhihong Zuo

Measurement is an important scientific activity. In most of science, including classical physics, is may be understood as a way of finding out about the physical world and representing the results numerically. No-go theorems show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-18 Richard Healey

Quantum instruments are mathematical devices introduced to describe the conditional state change during a quantum process. They are completely positive map valued measures on measurable spaces. We may also view them as non-commutative…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-09-17 B. V. Rajarama Bhat , Arghya Chongdar , Sruthymurali

Quantum measurement is a physical process. What physical resources and constraints does quantum mechanics require for measurement to produce the classical world we observe? Treating measurement as a fully unitary quantum process, our goal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Vishal Johnson , Ashmeet Singh , Reimar Leike , Philipp Frank , Torsten Enßlin

This article sets up a new formalism to investigate stochastic thermodynamics in the quantum regime, where stochasticity and irreversibility primarily come from quantum measurement. In the absence of any bath, we define a purely quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Cyril Elouard , David Herrera-Martí , Maxime Clusel , Alexia Auffèves

We argue that in contrast to the classical physics, the measurements in the quantum mechanics should provide simultaneous information about all relevant relative amplitudes (pure states and the transitions between them) and all relevant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-23 Daniel Sepunaru , Uzi Notev

The measurement of a quantum system becomes itself a quantum-mechanical process once the apparatus is internalized. That shift of perspective may result in different physical predictions for a variety of reasons. We present a model…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Martin Fraas , Gian Michele Graf , Lisa Hänggli

An exactly solvable model for a quantum measurement is discussed which is governed by hamiltonian quantum dynamics. The $z$-component $\hat s_z$ of a spin-1/2 is measured with an apparatus, which itself consists of magnet coupled to a bath.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Armen E. Allahverdyan , Roger Balian , Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

A quantum unitary evolution alternated with measurements is simulated by a bubble filled with fictitious particles called amplitude quanta that move chaotically and can be transformed by the simple rules that look like chemical reactions. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Yuri Ozhigov