{
  "id": "quant-ph/0311145",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2003-11-21T00:29:10.000Z",
  "updated": "2003-11-21T00:29:10.000Z",
  "title": "Disappearance of the Measurement Paradox in a Metaplectic Extension of Quantum Dynamics",
  "authors": [
    "Daniel I. Fivel"
  ],
  "comment": "16 pages 0 figures",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "It is shown that Schrodinger dynamics can be embedded in a larger dynamical theory which extends its symmetry group from the unitary group to the full metaplectic group, i.e. the group of linear canonical transformations. Among the newly admitted non-unitary processes are analogues of the classical measurement process which makes it possible to treat the wave-function as an objective property of the quantum mechanical system on the same footing as the phase-space coordinates of a classical system. The notion of \"observables\" that in general have values only when measured can then be dispensed with, and the measurement paradox disappears.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2003-11-21T00:29:10.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum dynamics",
      "metaplectic extension",
      "disappearance",
      "full metaplectic group",
      "measurement paradox disappears"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 16,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2003quant.ph.11145F"
    }
  }
}