Universality in Quantum Measurements
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07966v3
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:25:25 GMT
- Title: Universality in Quantum Measurements
- Authors: Avijit Lahiri
- Abstract summary: We briefly review a number of major features of the approach to quantum measurement theory based on environment-induced decoherence of the measuring apparatus.
We summarize our observations in the form of a couple of general principles that, unlike the wave function collapse hypothesis, emerge as ones consistent with the unitary Schr"odinger evolution of wave functions.
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- Abstract: We briefly review a number of major features of the approach to quantum
measurement theory based on environment-induced decoherence of the measuring
apparatus, and summarize our observations in the form of a couple of general
principles that, unlike the wave function collapse hypothesis, emerge as ones
consistent with the unitary Schr\"odinger evolution of wave functions. We
conclude with a few observations of a philosophical nature, to the effect that
that quantum theory does not purport to describe reality but constitutes an
{\it interpretation} of our phenomenal reality within a context -- one where
the Planck scale is not crossed. Beyond the Planck scale, a radically new
interpretation of reality is likely to emerge.
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