Quantum States and Measures on the Spectral Presheaf

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2008-09-28

arxiv.org/abs/0809.4847v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

13 pages, no figures; invited contribution for Special Issue of Adv. Sci. Lett. on "Quantum Gravity, Cosmology and Black Holes

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After a brief introduction to the spectral presheaf, which serves as an analogue of state space in the topos approach to quantum theory, we show that every state of the von Neumann algebra of physical quantities of a quantum system determines a certain measure on the spectral presheaf of the system. The so-called clopen subobjects of the spectral presheaf play the role of measurable sets. Measures on the spectral presheaf can be characterised abstractly, and the main result is that every abstract measure induces a unique state of the von Neumann algebra. Finally, we show how quantum-theoretical expectation values can be calculated from measures associated to quantum states.

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