Quantum Telegraph Behavior as a Result of Continuous Weak Measurement

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20837v1
• Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:29:53 GMT
• Title: Quantum Telegraph Behavior as a Result of Continuous Weak Measurement
• Abstract summary: We show that a simple model of continuous weak measurement gives rise to the telegraph switching behavior seen in experiments with single qubits.<n>This lends support to a continuous collapse interpretation of quantum mechanics, but can also be viewed as a model of continuous detection of a steady-state process in the incoherent limit.
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• Abstract: We show that a simple model of continuous weak measurement gives rise to the telegraph switching behavior seen in experiments with single qubits. This lends support to a continuous collapse interpretation of quantum mechanics, but can also be viewed as a model of continuous detection of a steady-state process in the incoherent limit. We show explicitly that such a system obeys the Born rule for particle counting statistics, even though no particle behavior has been invoked.

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