What is really "quantum" in quantum theory?

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2003-01-13

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0301051v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

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By analysing probabilistic foundations of quantum theory we understood that the so called quantum calculus of probabilities (including Born's rule) is not the main distinguishing feature of "quantum". This calculus is just a special variant of a contextual probabilistic calculus. In particular, we analysed the EPR-Bohm-Bell approach by using contextual probabilistic models (e.g., the frequency von Mises model). It is demonstrated that the EPR-Bohm-Bell consideration are not so much about "quantum", but they are merely about contextual. Our conjecture is that the "fundamental quantum element" is the Schr\"odinger evolution describing the very special dependence of probabilities on contexts. The main quantum mystery is neither the probability calculus in a Hilbert space nor the nonncommutative (Heisenberg) representation of physical observables, but the Schr\"odinger evolution of contextual probabilities.

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