Qubits and Spacetime unit seminar: Yasha Neiman, "A microscopic derivation of the quantum measurement postulates"

Title: A microscopic derivation of the quantum measurement postulates

Abstract: There is a disconnect between the "quantum foundations" community and practicing quantum physicists. Since the foundations community is incapable of agreeing on anything, the outside world is left with the impression that they accomplished nothing. Fortunately, this impression is false. 

In this talk, I will package some ideas from the foundations community into a neat derivation of the Copenhagen measurement postulates from a simple & explicit microscopic model. 

Because of the disconnect mentioned above, practicing physicists tend to find this construction surprising and enlightening, while foundations people find it simultaneously false, trivial, misguided, naive, pointless and unoriginal.