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A proposal for a model of many-successive measuring process

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A quantum-mechanical model of a detector monitoring the decay of an unstable object is constructed. Detailed investigation of the time evolution of this model shows that under some conditions the non-decay probability of many successively measured unstable particles coincides with that following from the state-reduction postulate. The probability of realizing continuous measurement without the Zenoparadox is demonstrated for this model.

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  1. Institute of Physics, Pedagogical University, Pl. Slowianski 6, 65-069, Zielona Gora, Poland

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Urbanowski, K. A proposal for a model of many-successive measuring process. Found Phys Lett 6, 167–189 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00697324

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