Quantum jumps as decoherent histories
arXiv:quant-ph/9606025 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.1833
Abstract
Quantum open systems are described in the Markovian limit by master equations in Lindblad form. I argue that common ``quantum jumps'' techniques, which solve the master equation by unraveling its evolution into stochastic trajectories in Hilbert space, correspond closely to a particular set of decoherent histories. This is illustrated by a simple model of a photon counting experiment.
8 pages RevTeX 3.0, considerably revised and shortened. To appear in the 17 March issue of Phys. Rev. Letters
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