On the Origin of the Quantum Rules for Identical Particles
Abstract
We present a proof of the Symmetrization Postulate for the special case of noninteracting, identical particles. The proof is given in the context of the Feynman formalism of Quantum Mechanics, and builds upon the work of Goyal, Knuth and Skilling (Phys. Rev. A 81, 022109 (2010)), which shows how to derive Feynman's rules from operational assumptions concerning experiments. Our proof is inspired by an attempt to derive this result due to Tikochinsky (Phys. Rev. A 37, 3553 (1988)), but substantially improves upon his argument, by clarifying the nature of the subject matter, by improving notation, and by avoiding strong, abstract assumptions such as analyticity.
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@article{arxiv.1211.1994,
title = {On the Origin of the Quantum Rules for Identical Particles},
author = {Klil H. Neori and Philip Goyal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.1994},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
8 pages, all figures embedded as TikZ. V2 clarified wording from V1 in response to reviewer