TY - JOUR
T1 - Complex-Valued Classical Behavior from the Correspondence Limit of Quantum Mechanics with Two Boundary Conditions
AU - Aharonov, Yakir
AU - Shushi, Tomer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022/6/1
Y1 - 2022/6/1
N2 - The two-state-vector formalism presents a time-symmetric approach to the standard quantum mechanics, with particular importance in the description of experiments having pre- and post-selected ensembles. In this paper, using the correspondence limit of the quantum harmonic oscillator in the two-state-vector formalism, we produce harmonic oscillators that possess a classical behavior while having a complex-valued position and momentum. This allows us to discover novel effects that cannot be achieved otherwise. The proposed classical behavior does not describe the classical physics in the usual sense since this behavior is subjected to the feature that only after the final measurement is performed, as a boundary condition, the complex-valued classical effects occur between the initial and the final boundary conditions. This classical behavior breaks down if one does not follow the decided boundary conditions during the experiment, since otherwise, one will contradict the impossibility of retrocausality.
AB - The two-state-vector formalism presents a time-symmetric approach to the standard quantum mechanics, with particular importance in the description of experiments having pre- and post-selected ensembles. In this paper, using the correspondence limit of the quantum harmonic oscillator in the two-state-vector formalism, we produce harmonic oscillators that possess a classical behavior while having a complex-valued position and momentum. This allows us to discover novel effects that cannot be achieved otherwise. The proposed classical behavior does not describe the classical physics in the usual sense since this behavior is subjected to the feature that only after the final measurement is performed, as a boundary condition, the complex-valued classical effects occur between the initial and the final boundary conditions. This classical behavior breaks down if one does not follow the decided boundary conditions during the experiment, since otherwise, one will contradict the impossibility of retrocausality.
KW - Classical systems
KW - Complex-valued trajectories
KW - Harmonic oscillator
KW - Two-state-vector-formalism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130356708&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10701-022-00576-8
DO - 10.1007/s10701-022-00576-8
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130356708
SN - 0015-9018
VL - 52
JO - Foundations of Physics
JF - Foundations of Physics
IS - 3
M1 - 56
ER -