Discriminating between the von Neumann and Lüders reduction rule

G. C. Hegerfeldt and R. Sala Mayato
Phys. Rev. A 85, 032116 – Published 12 March 2012

Abstract

Given an ensemble of systems in an unknown state, as well as an observable  and a physical apparatus which performs a measurement of  on the ensemble, whose detailed working is unknown (“black box”), we study how one can test whether the Lüders or von Neumann reduction rule applies.

  • Received 4 November 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.85.032116

©2012 American Physical Society

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G. C. Hegerfeldt1,2 and R. Sala Mayato1,3

  • 1Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Strasse 38, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
  • 2Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Göttingen, Friedrich-Hund-Platz 1, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
  • 3Departamento de Física Fundamental II and IUdEA, Universidad de La Laguna, La Laguna, E-38204 S/C de Tenerife, Spain

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Vol. 85, Iss. 3 — March 2012

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