Quantum mechanics from five physical assumptions

Details Quantum mechanics from five physical assumptions Quantum mechanics from five physical assumptions

2011-02-03

arxiv.org/abs/1102.0740v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

14 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

Five physical assumptions are proposed that together entail the general qualitative results, including the Born rule, of non-relativistic quantum mechanics by physical and information-theoretic reasoning alone. Two of these assumptions concern fundamental symmetries of physical interactions. The third concerns the Hilbert-space dimensions and the fourth and fifth the self-interaction Hamiltonians of the systems that function as "observers" within the theory. These assumptions are shown to provide a sufficient motivation for the usual Hilbert-space formalism, and to obviate the observation-related axioms and most interpretative assumptions with which minimal quantum mechanics is typically supplemented.

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