Decoherence bypass of macroscopic superpositions in quantum measurement

Details Decoherence bypass of macroscopic superpositions in quantum measurement Decoherence bypass of macroscopic superpositions in quantum measurement

2007-09-04

arxiv.org/abs/0709.0469v3

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Quantum Physics

9 pages, 1 figure, to be published in J. Phys. A, a few changes in content, corrected typos

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We study a class of quantum measurement models. A microscopic object is entangled with a macroscopic pointer such that a distinct pointer position is tied to each eigenvalue of the measured object observable. Those different pointer positions mutually decohere under the influence of an environment. Overcoming limitations of previous approaches we (i) cope with initial correlations between pointer and environment by considering them initially in a metastable local thermal equilibrium, (ii) allow for object-pointer entanglement and environment-induced decoherence of distinct pointer readouts to proceed simultaneously, such that mixtures of macroscopically distinct object-pointer product states arise without intervening macroscopic superpositions, and (iii) go beyond the Markovian treatment of decoherence.

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