See section 4.2, and beyond, of https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0510095
which is a very good explanation of why there are no such operators.
Brent
On 11/18/2024 10:37 PM, Alan Grayson wrote:
On Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 10:07:35 PM UTC-7 Alan Grayson wrote:
If there's no operator which has |alive> and |dead> as its
eigenvalues, can Schrödinger's thought experiment be applied to,
and offer any insights to QM? I have my doubts. TY, AG
The question boils down to this; if there's no operator which has
those values as eigenvalues, is it legimate to construct a
"superposition" of those eigenvalues and conclude anything about QM? AG
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