Quantum Set Theory Extending the Standard Probabilistic Interpretation of Quantum Theory
Abstract
The notion of equality between two observables will play many important roles in foundations of quantum theory. However, the standard probabilistic interpretation based on the conventional Born formula does not give the probability of equality between two arbitrary observables, since the Born formula gives the probability distribution only for a commuting family of observables. In this paper, quantum set theory developed by Takeuti and the present author is used to systematically extend the standard probabilistic interpretation of quantum theory to define the probability of equality between two arbitrary observables in an arbitrary state. We apply this new interpretation to quantum measurement theory, and establish a logical basis for the difference between simultaneous measurability and simultaneous determinateness.
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@article{arxiv.1504.06838,
title = {Quantum Set Theory Extending the Standard Probabilistic Interpretation of Quantum Theory},
author = {Masanao Ozawa},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.06838},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
latex, 31 pages. An extended abstract of this paper was presented in the 11th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2014), Kyoto University, Japan, June 4-6, 2014 and appeared in EPTCS 172, 2014, pp. 15-26, arXiv:1412.8540 [quant-ph], v3: revised Theorem 5.2