Macroscopic Reality from Quantum Complexity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.04545v5
• Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 00:10:28 GMT
• Title: Macroscopic Reality from Quantum Complexity
• Authors: Don Weingarten
• Abstract summary: We find a measure of the mean squared quantum complexity of the branches in the branch decomposition. The complexity measure depends on a parameter $b$ with units of volume which sets the boundary between quantum and classical behavior.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Beginning with the Everett-DeWitt many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, there have been a series of proposals for how the state vector of a quantum system might split at any instant into orthogonal branches, each of which exhibits approximately classical behavior. Here we propose a decomposition of a state vector into branches by finding the minimum of a measure of the mean squared quantum complexity of the branches in the branch decomposition. In a non-relativistic formulation of this proposal, branching occurs repeatedly over time, with each branch splitting successively into further sub-branches among which the branch followed by the real world is chosen randomly according to the Born rule. In a Lorentz covariant version, the real world is a single random draw from the set of branches at asymptotically late time, restored to finite time by sequentially retracing the set of branching events implied by the late time choice. The complexity measure depends on a parameter $b$ with units of volume which sets the boundary between quantum and classical behavior. The value of $b$ is, in principle, accessible to experiment.

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