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Stochastic field dynamics in models of spontaneous unitarity violation

by Lotte Mertens, Matthijs Wesseling, Jasper van Wezel

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Jasper van Wezel
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Preprint Link: scipost_202312_00001v3  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2024-03-07
Date submitted: 2024-02-24 14:12
Submitted by: van Wezel, Jasper
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Core
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • Quantum Physics
Approach: Theoretical

Abstract

Objective collapse theories propose a solution to the quantum measurement problem by predicting deviations from Schrodinger’s equation that can be tested experimentally. A class of objective theories based on spontaneous unitarity violation was recently introduced, in which the stochastic field required for obtaining Born’s rule does not depend on the state of the system being measured. Here, we classify possible models for the stochastic field dynamics in theories of spontaneous unitarity violation. We show that for correlated stochastic dynamics, the field must be defined on a closed manifold. In two or more dimensions, it is then always possible to find stochastic dynamics yielding Born’s rule, independent of the state being measured or the correlation time of the stochastic field. We show that the models defined this way are all isomorphic to the definition on a two-sphere, which we propose to be a minimal physical model for the stochastic field in models of spontaneous unitarity violation.

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Published as SciPost Phys. Core 7, 012 (2024)


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Report #1 by Anonymous (Referee 2) on 2024-2-25 (Invited Report)

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Really, again? I presume you can reuse my old comments ;-)

Requested changes

There is a typo tau -> \tau after Eq. (15).

Thanks for making those changes and I am happy to accept as is now.

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