Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2001-06-29
Physics
Quantum Physics
45 pages, 2 figures, a very slightly different version of this paper will appear in "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research
Scientific paper
This paper reports three almost trivial theorems that nevertheless appear to have significant import for quantum foundations studies. 1) A Gleason-like derivation of the quantum probability law, but based on the positive operator-valued measures as the basic notion of measurement (see also Busch, quant-ph/9909073). Of note, this theorem also works for 2-dimensional vector spaces and for vector spaces over the rational numbers, where the standard Gleason theorem fails. 2) A way of rewriting the quantum collapse rule so that it looks almost precisely identical to Bayes rule for updating probabilities in classical probability theory. And 3) a derivation of the tensor-product rule for combining quantum systems (and with it the very notion of quantum entanglement) from Gleason-like considerations for local measurements on bipartite systems along with classical communication.
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