Bohmian Mechanics, Open Quantum Systems and Continuous Measurements

This book shows how Bohmian mechanics overcomes the need for a measurement postulate involving wave function collapse.  The measuring process plays a very important role in quantum mechanics. It has been widely analyzed within the Copenhagen approach through the Born and von Neumann postulates, with...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nassar, Antonio B., Miret-Artés, Salvador (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
Subjects:
Online Access:
Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
LEADER 02618nmm a2200373 u 4500
001 EB001384193
003 EBX01000000000000000907158
005 00000000000000.0
007 cr|||||||||||||||||||||
008 170406 ||| eng
020 |a 9783319536538 
100 1 |a Nassar, Antonio B. 
245 0 0 |a Bohmian Mechanics, Open Quantum Systems and Continuous Measurements  |h Elektronische Ressource  |c by Antonio B. Nassar, Salvador Miret-Artés 
250 |a 1st ed. 2017 
260 |a Cham  |b Springer International Publishing  |c 2017, 2017 
300 |a XVII, 241 p. 19 illus., 12 illus. in color  |b online resource 
505 0 |a Historical and Introductory Account of Bohmian Mechanics -- Some Selected Applications of Bohmian Mechanics -- Bohmian Stochastic Trajectories -- Continuous Quantum Measurements in the Bohmian Framework -- Epilogue 
653 |a Physical measurements 
653 |a History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics 
653 |a Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems 
653 |a Statistical physics 
653 |a Quantum Physics 
653 |a Complex Systems 
653 |a Quantum physics 
653 |a Measurement Science and Instrumentation 
653 |a Physics 
653 |a Dynamical systems 
653 |a Measurement    
700 1 |a Miret-Artés, Salvador  |e [author] 
041 0 7 |a eng  |2 ISO 639-2 
989 |b Springer  |a Springer eBooks 2005- 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53653-8?nosfx=y  |x Verlag  |3 Volltext 
082 0 |a 530.12 
520 |a This book shows how Bohmian mechanics overcomes the need for a measurement postulate involving wave function collapse.  The measuring process plays a very important role in quantum mechanics. It has been widely analyzed within the Copenhagen approach through the Born and von Neumann postulates, with later extension due to Lüders. In contrast, much less effort has been invested in the measurement theory within the Bohmian mechanics framework. The continuous measurement (sharp and fuzzy, or strong and weak) problem is considered here in this framework. The authors begin by generalizing the so-called Mensky approach, which is based on restricted path integral through quantum corridors. The measuring system is then considered to be an open quantum system following a stochastic Schrödinger equation. Quantum stochastic trajectories (in the Bohmian sense) and their role in basic quantum processes are discussed in detail. The decoherence process is thereby described in terms of classical trajectories issuing from the violation of the noncrossing rule of quantum trajectories