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Main Authors: Mukherjee, Aritro, van Wezel, Jasper
Format: Preprint
Published: 2023
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05849
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author Mukherjee, Aritro
van Wezel, Jasper
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van Wezel, Jasper
contents Unitarity violations were recently proposed as a cause of objective quantum state reduction. This complements proposals based on stochastic modifications of Schrodinger's equation, but also differs from them in several aspects. Here, we formalise the description of unitarity violations, and show that they generically imply models of dynamical quantum state reduction (DQSR) driven by colored noise. We present a formalism for exploring such models as well as a prescription for enforcing explicit norm-preservation, and we show that the resulting pure state dynamics is described by a modified von-Neumann Liouville equation which in a particular limit reduces to the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) master equations. We additionally show adherence to Born's rule emerging in the same limit from a physical constraint relating fluctuating and dissipating components of the model.
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spellingShingle Colored noise driven unitarity violation causing dynamical quantum state reduction
Mukherjee, Aritro
van Wezel, Jasper
Quantum Physics
Unitarity violations were recently proposed as a cause of objective quantum state reduction. This complements proposals based on stochastic modifications of Schrodinger's equation, but also differs from them in several aspects. Here, we formalise the description of unitarity violations, and show that they generically imply models of dynamical quantum state reduction (DQSR) driven by colored noise. We present a formalism for exploring such models as well as a prescription for enforcing explicit norm-preservation, and we show that the resulting pure state dynamics is described by a modified von-Neumann Liouville equation which in a particular limit reduces to the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) master equations. We additionally show adherence to Born's rule emerging in the same limit from a physical constraint relating fluctuating and dissipating components of the model.
title Colored noise driven unitarity violation causing dynamical quantum state reduction
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05849