Quantum fluctuations, particles and entanglement: solving the quantum measurement problems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08892v1
• Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2023 18:42:49 GMT
• Title: Quantum fluctuations, particles and entanglement: solving the quantum measurement problems
• Authors: Kenichi Konishi
• Abstract summary: 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.
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• Abstract: 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 each measurement process at its core, is a spacetime, pointlike, event. Another key idea is that, when a microsystem $\psi$ gets into contact with the experimental device, factorization of $\psi$ rapidly fails and entangled mixed states appear. The wave functions for the microsystem-apparatus coupled system for different measurement outcomes then lack overlapping spacetime support. It means that the aftermath of each measurement is a single term in the sum: a ``wave-function collapse". Our discussion leading to a diagonal density matrix, $\rho= {\rm diag} ( |c_1|^2, \ldots, |c_n|^2, \ldots )$ shows how the information encoded in the wave function $|\psi\rangle = \sum_n c_n | n \rangle $ gets transcribed, via entanglement with the experimental device and environment, into the relative frequencies ${\cal P}_n = |c_n|^2$ for various experimental outcomes $F=f_n$. Our discussion represents the first, significant steps towards filling in the logical gaps in the conventional interpretation based on Born's rule, replacing it with a clearer understanding of quantum mechanics. Accepting objective reality of quantum fluctuations, independent of any experiments, and independently of human presence, one renounces the idea that in a fundamental, complete theory of Nature the result of each single experiment must necessarily be predictable.

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