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arxiv: quant-ph/9906127 · v1 · submitted 1999-06-30 · 🪐 quant-ph

Emergent measure-dependent probabilities from modified quantum dynamics without state-vector reduction

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Counting outcomes is the obvious algorithm for generating probabilities in quantum mechanics without state-vector reduction (i.e. many-worlds). This procedure has usually been rejected because for purely linear dynamics it gives results in disagreement with experiment. Here it is shown that if non-linear decoherence effects (previously proposed by other authors) are combined with an exponential time dependence of the scale for the non-linear effects, the correct measure-dependent probabilities can emerge via outcome counting, without the addition of any stochastic fields or metaphysical hypotheses.

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