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SheikYerbouti
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I am writing a paper on the problem of measurement and I am stuck on what the pointer momentum corresponds to physically. The coupling of the pointer momentum with the observable being measured is used to define the interaction Hamiltonian between the measuring apparatus and the system being measured. I understand that the observable conjugate to the pointer momentum is the pointer coordinate/read-out and that the pointer momentum generates the translations in for this coordinate. Is this all that there is to the pointer momentum, or does it correspond to something else as well?