Arrow of Time for Continuous Quantum Measurement
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Arrow of Time for Continuous Quantum Measurement.
We investigate the statistical arrow of time for a quantum system being monitored by a sequence of measurements. For a continuous qubit measurement example, we demonstrate that time-reversed evolution is always physically possible, provided that the measurement record is also negated. Despite this restoration of dynamical reversibility, a statistical arrow of time emerges, and may be quantified...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Physical Review Letters
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0031-9007,1079-7114
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.220507