Each Instant of Time a New Universe

Aharonov, Yakir; Popescu, Sandu; Tollaksen, Jeff

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Each Instant of Time a New Universe

Yakir Aharonov^3,4,
Sandu Popescu^5,6 &
Jeff Tollaksen³

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We present an alternative view of quantum evolution in which each moment of time is viewed as a new “universe” and time evolution is given by correlations between them. [Editors note: for a video of the talks given by Prof. Aharonov at the Aharonov-80 conference in 2012 at Chapman University, see quantum.chapman.edu/talk-3 and quantum.chapman.edu/talk-30 and by Prof. Popescu, see quantum.chapman.edu/talk-31.]

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In a completely different context, superpositions of time evolutions were discussed in [4] and experimentally verified in [5].
2.
In the standard language this outcome corresponds to the Krauss operator α|↑〉〈↑|+β|↓〉〈↓|.

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Acknowledgements

S.P. acknowledges support from the European Research Council ERC Advanced Grant NLST, EU grant Q-Essence and the Templeton Foundation. We thank Ildi Popescu for her artistic assistance with Fig. 3.1.

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Institute for Quantum Studies and Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, 92866, CA, USA
Yakir Aharonov & Jeff Tollaksen
School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Yakir Aharonov
H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol, BS8 1TL, UK
Sandu Popescu
Institute for Quantum Studies, Chapman University, Orange, 92866, CA, USA
Sandu Popescu

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Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, USA
Daniele C. Struppa
Schmid College of Science and Technology, Chapman University, Orange, USA
Jeffrey M. Tollaksen

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Aharonov, Y., Popescu, S., Tollaksen, J. (2014). Each Instant of Time a New Universe. In: Struppa, D., Tollaksen, J. (eds) Quantum Theory: A Two-Time Success Story. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5217-8_3

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