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CAN WE UNDO QUANTUM MEASUREMENTS?

Feb, 1980
9 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 22 (1980) 879
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  • Print-80-0137 (TEXAS)
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Abstract: (APS)
The Schrödinger equation cannot convert a pure state into a mixture (just as Newton's equations cannot display irreversibility). However, to observe phase relationships between macroscopically distinguishable states, one has to measure very peculiar operators. An example, constructed explicitly, shows that the classical analog of such an operator cannot be measured, because to do so would violate classical irreversibility. This result justifies von Neumann's measurement theory, without any hypothesis on the role of the observer.
  • QUANTUM MECHANICS: SCHROEDINGER EQUATION
  • QUANTUM MECHANICS: MEASUREMENT