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Entropic Updating of Probability and Density Matrices

Quantum Physics 2017-12-06 v1

Abstract

We find that the standard relative entropy and the Umegaki entropy are designed for the purpose of inferentially updating probability and density matrices respectively. From the same set of inferentially guided design criteria, both of the previously stated entropies are derived in parallel. This formulates a quantum maximum entropy method for the purpose of inferring density matrices in the absence of complete information in Quantum Mechanics.

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@article{arxiv.1710.09373,
  title  = {Entropic Updating of Probability and Density Matrices},
  author = {Kevin Vanslette},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.09373},
  year   = {2017}
}

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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1412.5644 by other authors