Quantum tomography explains quantum mechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2110.05294v5
• Date: Mon, 20 May 2024 17:50:29 GMT
• Title: Quantum tomography explains quantum mechanics
• Authors: Arnold Neumaier,
• Abstract summary: A suggestive notion for what constitutes a quantum detector leads to a logically impeccable definition of measurement. The various forms of quantum tomography for quantum states, quantum detectors, quantum processes, and quantum instruments are discussed. The new approach is closer to actual practice than the traditional foundations.
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• Abstract: Starting from a new principle inspired by quantum tomography rather than from Born's rule, this paper gives a self-contained deductive approach to quantum mechanics and quantum measurement. A suggestive notion for what constitutes a quantum detector and for the behavior of its responses leads to a logically impeccable definition of measurement. Applications to measurement schemes for optical states, position measurements and particle tracks demonstrate the applicability to complex realistic experiments without any idealization. The various forms of quantum tomography for quantum states, quantum detectors, quantum processes, and quantum instruments are discussed. The traditional dynamical and spectral properties of quantum mechanics are derived from a continuum limit of quantum processes, giving the Lindblad equation for the density operator of a mixing quantum system and the Schr\"odinger equation for the state vector of a pure, nonmixing quantum system. Normalized density operators are shown to play the role of quantum phase space variables, in complete analogy to the classical phase space variables position and momentum. A slight idealization of the measurement process leads to the notion of quantum fields, whose smeared quantum expectations emerge as reproducible properties of regions of space accessible to measurements. The new approach is closer to actual practice than the traditional foundations. It is more general, and therefore more powerful. It is simpler and less technical than the traditional approach, and the standard tools of quantum mechanics are not difficult to derive. This makes the new approach suitable for introductory courses on quantum mechanics. A variety of quotes from the literature illuminate the formal exposition with historical and philosophical aspects.

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