To Explain Results of Position Measurement by Self-Induced Photon Emission and Absorption

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel interpretation of quantum measurement, suggesting wave function transitions to energy eigenstates or their orthogonal counterparts, explaining position measurement results via self-induced photon processes.

Contribution

It introduces a new perspective on wave function collapse involving periodic transitions and self-induced photon emission and absorption to explain measurement outcomes.

Findings

Detection rate matches probability flux when wave function is a linear combination of energy eigenstates.

Results can be explained by self-induced photon processes when wave function is not a linear combination.

Provides a unified explanation for position measurement results without traditional collapse assumptions.

Abstract

It is proposed in this paper that without a measurement, the wave function of a system periodically transits to a bound energy eigenfunction or the complementary wave function that is orthogonal to all the bound energy eigenfunctions. Applying this assumption to analyze results of position measurement shows that when the wave function of the entangled incident object and a position detector is a linear combination of the bound energy eigenfunctions of the entangled system prior to collapses, the detection rate essentially equals the probability flux of the incident object entering the detector. When the wave function of the entangled incident object and a position detector is not a linear combination of the bound energy eigenfunctions of the entangled system, results of position measurement can also be explained by the proposed self-induced photon emission and absorption.