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Recovering the quantum formalism from physically realist axioms

Quantum Physics 2022-01-04 v2

Abstract

We present a heuristic derivation of Born's rule and unitary transforms in Quantum Mechanics, from a simple set of axioms built upon a physical phenomenology of quantization. This approach naturally leads to the usual quantum formalism, within a new realistic conceptual framework that is discussed in details. Physically, the structure of Quantum Mechanics appears as a result of the interplay between the quantized number of "modalities" accessible to a quantum system, and the continuum of "contexts" that are required to define these modalities. Mathematically, the Hilbert space structure appears as a consequence of a specific "extra-contextuality" of modalities, closely related to the hypothesis of Gleason's theorem, and consistent with its conclusions.

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@article{arxiv.1610.06164,
  title  = {Recovering the quantum formalism from physically realist axioms},
  author = {Alexia Auffeves and Philippe Grangier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1610.06164},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

This is an improved version of arXiv:1505.01369 [quant-ph]. In v2 clarifications on the link between axioms and mathematics