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Quantum approach to coupling classical and quantum dynamics

Publication date2000
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We present a consistent framework of coupled classical and quantum dynamics. Our result allows us to overcome severe limitations of previous phenomenological approaches, such as evolutions that do not preserve the positivity of quantum states or that allow one to activate quantum nonlocality for superluminal signaling. A “hybrid” quantum-classical density is introduced, and its evolution equation derived. The implications and applications of our result are numerous: it incorporates the back-reaction of quantum on classical variables, and it resolves fundamental problems encountered in standard mean-field theories, and remarkably, also in the quantum measurement process; i.e., the most controversial example of quantum-classical interaction is consistently described within our approach, leading to a theory of dynamical collapse.

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DIÓSI, Lajos, GISIN, Nicolas, STRUNZ, Walter. Quantum approach to coupling classical and quantum dynamics. In: Physical review, A, Atomic, molecular, and optical physics, 2000, vol. 61, n° 2. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.61.022108
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