On Friday, October 26, 2018 at 10:39:27 AM UTC, Lawrence Crowell wrote: > > On Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 10:12:42 AM UTC-5, [email protected] > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 10:39:11 PM UTC, [email protected] >> wrote: >>> >>> If a system is in a superposition of states, whatever value measured, >>> will be repeated if the same system is repeatedly measured. But what >>> happens if the system is in a mixed state? TIA, AG >>> >> >> If you think about it, whatever value you get on a single trial for a >> mixed state, repeated on the same system, will result in the same value >> measured repeatedly. If this is true, how does measurement distinguish >> superposition of states, with mixed states? AG >> > > For a pure quantum state the statistical variance of a large number of > experiments reflect a wave nature. > > LC >
For ensembles, I think you'll get overlapping interference patterns, one for each component of the mixed state, with intensity proportional to the probability of occurrence of each state of the mixture. AG -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
