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Quantum Measurements, Phase Transitions and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking

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It is shown that if quantum measurement results in a phase transition then due to orthogonality of Fock spaces of different vacuums the final state can’t be distinguished from the mixture. Examples for transitions in ferromagnetic and vapour-liquid systems are considered. The nonlocality interpretation is proposed in which EPR-Bohm and other quantum nonlocal correlations described as the spontaneous symmetry breaking of system state.

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  1. Lebedev Inst. of Physics, Leninsky Prospect 53, Moscow, Russia, 117924

    S. N. Mayburov

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  1. University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England

    V. P. Belavkin  & R. L. Hudson  & 

  2. Tamagawa University, Tokyo, Japan

    O. Hirota

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Mayburov, S.N. (1995). Quantum Measurements, Phase Transitions and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking. In: Belavkin, V.P., Hirota, O., Hudson, R.L. (eds) Quantum Communications and Measurement. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1391-3_17

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