Shearing Off the Tree: Emerging Branch Structure and Born's Rule in an Equilibrated Multiverse

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06755v2
• Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 14:20:20 GMT
• Title: Shearing Off the Tree: Emerging Branch Structure and Born's Rule in an Equilibrated Multiverse
• Authors: Philipp Strasberg and Joseph Schindler
• Abstract summary: We show that the linearity of the Schr"odinger equation together with decoherence generate an exponentially growing tree of branches. Our results suggest that there is more structure in the many worlds tree than previously anticipated.
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• Abstract: Within the many worlds interpretation (MWI) it is believed that, as time passes on, the linearity of the Schr\"odinger equation together with decoherence generate an exponentially growing tree of branches where "everything happens", provided the branches are defined for a decohering basis. By studying an example, using exact numerical diagonalization of the Schr\"odinger equation to compute the decoherent histories functional, we find that this picture needs revision. Our example shows decoherence for histories defined at a few times, but a significant fraction (often the vast majority) of branches shows strong interference effects for histories of many times. In a sense made precise below, the histories independently sample an equilibrated quantum process, and, remarkably, we find that only histories that sample frequencies in accordance with Born's rule remain decoherent. Our results suggest that there is more structure in the many worlds tree than previously anticipated, influencing arguments of both proponents and opponents of the MWI.

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