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Entanglement Symmetry, Amplitudes, and Probabilities: Inverting Born's Rule

Quantum Physics 2011-07-28 v1 Statistical Mechanics Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Symmetry of entangled states under a swap of outcomes ("envariance") implies their equiprobability, and leads to Born's rule. Here I show that the amplitude of a state given by a superposition of sequences of events that share same total count (e.g., n detections of 0 and m of 1 in a spin 1/2 measurement) is proportional to the square root of the fraction - square root of the relative frequency - of all the equiprobable sequences of 0's and 1's with that n and m.

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@article{arxiv.1105.4810,
  title  = {Entanglement Symmetry, Amplitudes, and Probabilities: Inverting Born's Rule},
  author = {Wojciech H. Zurek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4810},
  year   = {2011}
}

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Submitted to Physical Review Letters