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Quantum Reality Filters

Mathematical Physics 2011-03-28 v2 math.MP Quantum Physics

Abstract

An anhomomorphic logic \ascript\ascript ^* is the set of all possible realities for a quantum system. Our main goal is to find the "actual reality" ϕa\ascript\phi_a\in\ascript ^* for the system. Reality filters are employed to eliminate unwanted potential realities until only ϕa\phi_a remains. In this paper, we consider three reality filters that are constructed by means of quantum integrals. A quantum measure μ\mu can generate or actualize a ϕ\ascript\phi\in\ascript ^* if μ(A)\mu (A) is a quantum integral with respect to ϕ\phi for a density function ff over events AA. In this sense, μ\mu is an "average" of the truth values of ϕ\phi with weights given by ff. We mainly discuss relations between these filters and their existence and uniqueness properties. For example, we show that a quadratic reality generated by a quantum measure is unique. In this case we obtain the unique actual quadratic reality.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1002.4225,
  title  = {Quantum Reality Filters},
  author = {Stanley P. Gudder},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1002.4225},
  year   = {2011}
}

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25 pages

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