No-signalling-based version of Zurek's derivation of quantum probabilities: A note on "Environment-assisted invariance, entanglement, and probabilities in quantum physics"

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2003-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312150v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

6 pages

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Zurek has derived the quantum probabilities for Schmidt basis states of bipartite quantum systems in pure joint states, from the assumption that they should be not be affected by one party's action if the action can be undone by the other party (``envariance of probability'') and an auxiliary assumption. We argue that a natural generalization of the auxiliary assumption is actually strong enough to yield the Born rule itself, but that Zurek's argument and protocol can be adapted to do without this assumption, at the cost of using envariance of probability in both directions. We consider alternative motivations for envariance, one based on the no-signalling constraint that actions on one subsystem of a quantum system not allow signalling to another subsystem entirely distinct from the first, and another which is perhaps strongest in the context of a relative-state interpretation of quantum mechanics. In part because of this, we argue that the relative appeal of our version and the original version of Zurek's argument depends in part upon whether one interprets the quantum formalism in terms of relative states or definite measurement outcomes.

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