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arXiv:quant-ph/0507106

Symmetrization, quantum images and measurement

Fariel Shafee

Published Jul 11, 2005• 0 citations
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Abstract

We argue that symmetrization of an incoming microstate with similar states in a sea of microstates contained in a macroscopic detector can produce an effective image, which does not contradict the no-cloning theorem, and such a combinatorial set can then be used with first passage random walk interactions suggested in an earlier work to give the right quantum mechanical weight for measured eigenvalues.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/0507106

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