Understanding
the quantum measurement process requires describing the measured system and the measurement apparatus as a compound quantum system governed by the rules of quantum statistical mechanics.
Not exact matches
[2] P. MITTELSTAEDT, The interpretation of
quantum mechanics and the
measurement process, Cambridge UP., 1998, p. 47 - 57, 62 - 64.
To oversimplify a bit, and ignoring some possibly relevant contemporary developments, in
quantum mechanics it is necessary to posit the intervention of an «observer» at a certain crucial point of the
measurement process.
«We have demonstrated a reconfigurable array of traps for single atoms, where we can prepare up to 50 individual atoms in separate traps deterministically, for future use in
quantum information
processing,
quantum simulations, or precision
measurements,» says Vuletic, who is also a member of MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics.
These technologies exploit
quantum mechanics, the physics that dominates the atomic world, to perform disparate tasks such as nanoscale temperature
measurement and
processing quantum information with lasers.
If the amount of correlation between these
measurements doesn't tally with previous Bell tests, it implies a violation of
quantum theory, hinting that the
measurements at A and B are being controlled by
processes outside the purview of standard physics.
Noise also occurs at the
quantum scale and can e.g. interfere with the
measurements of atomic fountain clocks or with
quantum information
processing.