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, agrays...@gmail.com > wrote: >> >> >> >> On Tuesday, October 23, 2018 at 10:39:11 PM UTC, agrays...@gmail.com >> 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 everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
