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Hauptverfasser: Blahnik, Šárka, Shandera, Sarah
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02214
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author Blahnik, Šárka
Shandera, Sarah
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Shandera, Sarah
contents We consider scenarios where the dynamics of a quantum system are partially determined by prior local measurements of some interacting environmental degrees of freedom. The resulting effective system dynamics are described by a disordered Hamiltonian, with spacetime-varying parameter values drawn from distributions that are generically neither flat nor Gaussian. This class of scenarios is a natural extension of those where a fully non-dynamical environmental degree of freedom determines a universal coupling constant for the system. Using a family of quasi-exactly solvable anharmonic oscillators, we consider environmental ground states of nonlinearly coupled degrees of freedom, unrestricted by a weak coupling expansion, which include strongly quantum non-Gaussian states. We derive the properties of distributions for both quadrature and photon number measurements. Measurement-induced disorder of this kind is likely realizable in laboratory quantum systems and, given a notion of naturally occurring measurement, suggests a new class of scenarios for the dynamics of quantum systems in particle physics and cosmology.
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Blahnik, Šárka
Shandera, Sarah
Quantum Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
We consider scenarios where the dynamics of a quantum system are partially determined by prior local measurements of some interacting environmental degrees of freedom. The resulting effective system dynamics are described by a disordered Hamiltonian, with spacetime-varying parameter values drawn from distributions that are generically neither flat nor Gaussian. This class of scenarios is a natural extension of those where a fully non-dynamical environmental degree of freedom determines a universal coupling constant for the system. Using a family of quasi-exactly solvable anharmonic oscillators, we consider environmental ground states of nonlinearly coupled degrees of freedom, unrestricted by a weak coupling expansion, which include strongly quantum non-Gaussian states. We derive the properties of distributions for both quadrature and photon number measurements. Measurement-induced disorder of this kind is likely realizable in laboratory quantum systems and, given a notion of naturally occurring measurement, suggests a new class of scenarios for the dynamics of quantum systems in particle physics and cosmology.
title Natural disorder distributions from measurement
topic Quantum Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02214