Pure-state quantum trajectories for general non-Markovian systems do not exist


Abstract in English

Since the first derivation of non-Markovian stochastic Schrodinger equations, their interpretation has been contentious. In a recent Letter [Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 080401 (2008)], Diosi claimed to prove that they generate true single system trajectories [conditioned on] continuous measurement. In this Letter we show that his proof is fundamentally flawed: the solution to his non-Markovian stochastic Schrodinger equation at any particular time can be interpreted as a conditioned state, but joining up these solutions as a trajectory creates a fiction.

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