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View SchemaEmergent measure-dependent probabilities from modified quantum dynamics without state-vector reduction
| Authors | M. B. Weissman |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9906127 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9906127 |
| Journal | Found.Phys.Lett. 12 (1999) 407-426 |
Abstract
Counting outcomes is the obvious algorithm for generating probabilities in quantum mechanics without state-vector reduction (i.e. many-worlds). This procedure has usually been rejected because for purely linear dynamics it gives results in disagreement with experiment. Here it is shown that if non-linear decoherence effects (previously proposed by other authors) are combined with an exponential time dependence of the scale for the non-linear effects, the correct measure-dependent probabilities can emerge via outcome counting, without the addition of any stochastic fields or metaphysical hypotheses.
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