Observing a Changing Hilbert-Space Inner Product
arXiv:2101.00015 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.013016
Abstract
In quantum mechanics, physical states are represented by rays in Hilbert space , which is a vector space imbued by an inner product , whose physical meaning arises as the overlap for a pure state (description of preparation) and a projective measurement. However, current quantum theory does not formally address the consequences of a changing inner product during the interval between preparation and measurement. We establish a theoretical framework for such a changing inner product, which we show is consistent with standard quantum mechanics. Furthermore, we show that this change is described by a quantum channel, which is tomographically observable, and we elucidate how our result is strongly related to the exploding topic of PT-symmetric quantum mechanics. We explain how to realize experimentally a changing inner product for a qubit in terms of a qutrit protocol with a unitary channel.
arXiv comment12 pages, 4 figures, updated version includes an erratum
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