Stochastic Schrödinger evolution and symmetric Kähler manifolds of low dimension
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We consider the manifold-valued, stochastic extension of the Schrödinger equation introduced by Hughston (Proc.Roy.Soc.Lond. A452 (1996) 953) in a manifestly covariant, differential-geometric framework, and examine the resulting quantum evolution on some specific examples of Kähler manifolds with many symmetries. We find conditions on the curvature for the evolution to be a `collapse process' in the sense of Brody and Hughston (Proc.Roy.Soc.Lond. A458 (2002) 1117) or, more generally, a `reduction process', and give examples that satisfy these conditions. For some of these examples, we show that the Lüders projection postulate admits a consistent interpretation and remains valid in the nonlinear regime.
latex, 23 pages
latex, 23 pages