Superposition is real, I know this. It's usually represented as containing contradictions (opposite spins of electrons). Therefore it's claimed that Aristotle's Logic does not work here. But is this "superposition thing" a quality or an explanation of a quality?
What if this particle disappers and appears so quickly that, and we're saying (while it's disappered) "it's in a superposition state" ? I mean, containing contradictions is OK for non physical being, because there is no existence at that moment? But when electron exists, it has only one spin. Is it possible to explain superposition in such way? Are there any similar comments by physicists?
Quantum superpositions describe states of a quantum system, nothing more and nothing less.
Stam Nicolis While a particle is in a quantum superposition, is it possible for this particle to disappear (in terms of physical existence)? Are there any energy changes in quantum field when a particle collapsed?
No, it's not possible. More precisely, the destruction of a particle doesn't have anything to do with it being in a superposition. The answer to the second question is that the question doesn't make sense as posed.
It's useful to have a specific example, for instance an electron. The space of states of its spin is the Bloch sphere, the sphere S^2. Any point on that sphere describes a state of the spin of the electron, the two poles of the sphere describe the eigenstates of the operator s_z.
The unitary evolution operator that acts on this space can be written in terms of the Pauli matrices and allows the calculation of the tramsition probability from any state to any other state.
Stam Nicolis Does this mean that when the electron is in superposition, its spin can correspond to any point on this sphere, but when the wave function collapses, the measurement result is only one of the two poles of the sphere? If so, are superposition states always infinitely probabilistic or is this specific to quantum computation? I ask this because I have often seen superposition defined as "a state that contains two opposite states at the same time." Is this a summarized definition? Are there actually infinite possibilities?
In 8-dimensional octonion space SU(2)R pre-gravity:
• superposition destroys spacetime point structure for actions approaching Planck’s reduced constant.
• Landauer s-matrix scattering in a heterojunction cause tunneling electron wavefunction collapse.
George Soli Wow, this is too technical. Does this mean that a superposition state can be consequenced vacuum?
Nursena Çetingül Algebraic octonion physics combines the particle physics standard model with quantum pre-gravity. Collapsed wavefunctions gravitate less because collapse releases gravitational binding energy. Particle rest mass energy is gravitational binding energy that is defined in zero-active-mass cosmology. For starters see figure (1) in,
Article ΛCDM and the Principle of Equivalence
George Soli This is interesting... Thank you so much! So, before collapse, there were more energy (in superposition state)? By the way, are these topics about dark energy physics?
Nursena Çetingül Yes, collapse produces energy. Dark energy has been a guiding light. On the experimental side is a mad rush to space.
https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2024/01/ivo-nasa-darpa-and-another-group-are-all-working-to-test-quantum-drives-in-space.html
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