English
Related papers

Related papers: Two Operational Principles Single Out Quantum Theo…

200 papers

It is argued that Feynman's rules for evaluating probabilities, combined with von Neumann's principle of psycho-physical parallelism, help avoid inconsistencies, often associated with quantum theory. The former allows one to assign…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Dmitri Sokolovski

We present a parallel between commutative and non-commutative polymorphisms. Our emphasis is the applications to conditional distributions from stochastic processes. In the classical case, both the measures and the positive definite kernels…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-22 Palle E. T. Jorgensen , James Tian

The distinctive features of quantum mechanics, which set it apart from other physical theories, challenge our notions of realism. Recovering realism from purely philosophical grounds, a quantitative and operational criterion was proposed in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-15 D. M. Fucci , R. M. Angelo

The usual formulation of quantum theory is based on rather obscure axioms (employing complex Hilbert spaces, Hermitean operators, and the trace rule for calculating probabilities). In this paper it is shown that quantum theory can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Lucien Hardy

Quantum Mechanics (QM) is a quantum probability theory based on the density matrix. The possibility of applying classical probability theory, which is based on the probability distribution function(PDF), to describe quantum systems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-12 Jinshan Wu , Shouyong Pei

This work develops a conceptual framework for the foundations of quantum physics, linking two main approaches: the algebraic formulation and quantum probability. Rather than proposing new axioms or theories, the text reorganizes and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Pandiscia Carlo

Measurement-based quantum computation has emerged from the physics community as a new approach to quantum computation where the notion of measurement is the main driving force of computation. This is in contrast with the more traditional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-21 Vincent Danos , Elham Kashefi , Prakash Panangaden

In quantum operations, probabilities characterise both the degree of the success of a state transformation and, as density operator eigenvalues, the degree of mixedness of the final state. We give a unified treatment of pure-to-pure state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Anthony Chefles

Biconformal spaces contain the essential elements of quantum mechanics, making the independent imposition of quantization unnecessary. Based on three postulates characterizing motion and measurement in biconformal geometry, we derive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Lara B. Anderson , James T. Wheeler

Quantum mechanics may be formulated as SENSIBLE QUANTUM MECHANICS (SQM) so that it contains nothing probabilistic, except, in a certain frequency sense, conscious perceptions. Sets of these perceptions can be deterministically realized with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Don N. Page

A fundamental approach for the characterization and quantification of all kinds of resources is to study the conversion between different resource objects under certain constraints. Here we analyze, from a resource-non-specific standpoint,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-11 Zi-Wen Liu , Kaifeng Bu , Ryuji Takagi

Quantum theory can be regarded as a non-commutative generalization of classical probability. From this point of view, one expects quantum dynamics to be analogous to classical conditional probabilities. In this paper, a variant of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Leifer

Quantum dynamics of the collective mode and individual particles on a ring is studied as the simplest model of projective quantum measurement. In this model, the collective mode measures an individual single quantum system. The heart of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Masahiro Morikawa , Akika Nakamichi

The conceptual setting of quantum mechanics is subject to an ongoing debate from its beginnings until now. The consequences of the apparent differences between quantum statistics and classical statistics range from the philosophical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 C. Wetterich

We explore further the suggestion to describe a pre- and post-selected system by a two-state, which is determined by two conditions. Starting with a formal definition of a two-state Hilbert space and basic operations, we systematically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Reznik , Y. Aharonov

We study quantum measurement retrodiction using the principle of minimum change. For quantum-to-classical measurement channels, we show that all standard quantum divergences select the same retrodictive update, yielding a unique and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Jiaxi Kuang , Kensei Torii , Francesco Buscemi

The debate on the nature of quantum probabilities in relation to Quantum Non Locality has elevated Quantum Mechanics to the level of an "Operational Epistemic Theory". In such context the quantum superposition principle has an extraneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano

The only evidence we have for a discrete reality comes from quantum measurements; without invoking these measurements, quantum theory describes continuous entities. This seeming contradiction can be resolved via analysis that treats…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-08 Ken Wharton

It is shown that in two-state quantum theory, a generic quantum state can be described by a non-computable real number. In terms of this, the criterion for measurement outcome is simply and deterministically defined. This demonstration is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. N. Palmer

Axiomatic approach to measurement theory is developed. All the possible statistical properties of apparatuses measuring an observable with nondegenerate spectrum allowed in standard quantum mechanics are characterized.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masanao Ozawa