On 4/12/2018 4:39 PM, [email protected] wrote:
On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 11:32:24 PM UTC, Brent wrote: On 4/12/2018 3:12 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote:On Thursday, April 12, 2018 at 9:26:53 PM UTC, Brent wrote: On 4/12/2018 12:44 PM, [email protected] wrote:*Let's simplify the model. Instead of a Nitrogen molecule, consider a free electron at rest in some frame. Its only degree of freedom is spin IIUC. Is it your claim that this electron become entangled with its environment via its spin WF, which is a superposition of UP and DN? Does this spin WF participate in the entanglement? TIA, AG*The electron's spin dof can only become entangled with the environment by an interaction with the environment. Brent Does that happen spontaneously, in the absence of a measurement? AGDefine "measurement". BrentIsn't this one of the big unsolved problems in QM? How would you explain spontaneous entanglement?
I've never heard the term and I don't know what it means. Brent
We think it occurs when we have an instrument to measure some observable, but there must be a more general process speculated to explain spontaneous entanglement. Don't ya think? AG
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