The Quantum Measurement Process: Lessons from an Exactly Solvable Model
Armen E. Allahverdyan, Roger Balian, Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen
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13 pages, discussion of pre-measurement added. World Scientific style. To appear in proceedings "Beyond The Quantum", Th.M. Nieuwenhuizen et al, eds, (World Scientific, 2007)
The measurement of a spin-$\half$ is modeled by coupling it to an apparatus, that consists of an Ising magnetic dot coupled to a phonon bath. Features of quantum measurements are derived from the dynamical solution of the measurement, regarded as a process of quantum statistical mechanics. Schrödinger cat terms involving both the system and the apparatus, die out very quickly, while the registration is a process taking the apparatus from its initially metastable state to one of its stable final states. The occurrence of Born probabilities can be inferred at the macroscopic level, by looking at the pointer alone. Apparent non-unitary behavior of the measurement process is explained by the arisal of small many particle correlations, that characterize relaxation.
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