Measurement and Probability in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.12411v3
• Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 03:22:48 GMT
• Title: Measurement and Probability in Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
• Authors: Ed Seidewitz
• Abstract summary: This paper provides a relativistic model of measurement, in which the state of the universe is decomposed into decoherent histories of measurements recorded within it. The wave functions that we actually use for such experiments are local reductions of very coarse-grained superpositions of universal eigenstates.
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• Abstract: Ultimately, any explanation of quantum measurement must be extendable to relativistic quantum mechanics (RQM), since many precisely confirmed experimental results follow from quantum field theory (QFT), which is based on RQM. Certainly, the traditional "collapse" postulate for quantum measurement is problematic in a relativistic context, at the very least because, as usually formulated, it violates the relativity of simultaneity. Among alternatives to the traditional collapse interpretation, the Everettian approach of an unmodified, unitary quantum formalism is the only one that has been clearly extended to RQM and QFT. However, the usual "many worlds" interpretation of such an approach leads to to difficulty in how to even define probabilities over different possible "worlds". The present paper addresses this difficulty by providing a relativistic model of measurement, in which the state of the universe is decomposed into decoherent histories of measurements recorded within it. Zurek's concept of envariance can be generalized to this context of relativistic spacetime, giving an objective definition of the probability of any one of these quantum histories, consistent with Born's rule. This then leads to the statistics of any repeated experiment also tending to follow the Born rule as the number of repetitions increases. The wave functions that we actually use for such experiments are local reductions of very coarse-grained superpositions of universal eigenstates, and their "collapse" can be re-interpreted as simply an update based on additional incremental knowledge gained from a measurement about the "real" eigenstate of our universe.

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