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Quantum Jumps Revisited
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: Received: 6 January 2022 / Approved: 10 January 2022 / Online: 10 January 2022 (12:58:36 CET)
How to cite: Chiatti, L.; Licata, I. Quantum Jumps Revisited. Preprints 2022, 2022010115. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0115.v1 Chiatti, L.; Licata, I. Quantum Jumps Revisited. Preprints 2022, 2022010115. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202201.0115.v1
Abstract
A theoretical description of quantum jumps at the level of elementary particles is proposed, based on a micro-cosmological interpretation of their de Broglie phase. The third quantization formalism proposed in current literature for the description of baby universes in quantum cosmology is used here to describe the breakdown of unitarity in the transition from the pre-jump to the post-jump wave function. The corpuscular aspect manifested by the particle in the micro-interaction that originates the jump is represented by a pair of evanescent "micro-universes", respectively pre- and post-jump, connected by a wormhole. The latter represents the actual implementation of the interaction that leads to the projection on the outgoing state; this interaction is always local, even when the selected outgoing state is entangled. Therefore, the decoherence which leads to the emergence of classicality is originated by the same fundamental interactions of the Standard Model involved in the unitary evolution of the wave function. The objective nature of the reduction process admits implications on the possibility of using the formalism in the cosmological context, which are briefly discussed.
Keywords
de Broglie phase; de Sitter geometry; micro-cosmology; third quantization; Higgs mechanism
Subject
Physical Sciences, Quantum Science and Technology
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