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METHODOLOGICAL NOTES

On the question of measurement in quantum mechanics

A. N. Rubtsov<sup>ab

a</sup> International Center for Quantum Optics and Quantum Technologies (Russian Quantum Center), Skolkovo, Moscow
^b Faculty of Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Abstract: The probabilistic nature of measurements in quantum mechanics can be interpreted as a consequence of information loss arising from the chaotic dynamics of measuring instruments.

Keywords: wave function collapse, reduction postulate, quantum chaos, decoherence, causality.

PACS: 03.65.-w, 03.65.Yz

MSC: 81P15

Received: November 20, 2021
Revised: June 28, 2022
Accepted: July 10, 2022

DOI: 10.3367/UFNr.2022.07.039219

 English version: Physics–Uspekhi, 2023, 66:7, 734–740

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