Classical three-box paradox

DOI10.1088/0305-4470/36/17/315MaRDI QIDQ4707609zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors K. A. Kirkpatrick

Publication date 12 October 2003

Published in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0207124

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

Abstract: A simple classical probabilistic system (a simple card game) classically exemplifies Aharonov and Vaidman's "Three-Box 'paradox'" [J. Phys. A 24, 2315 (1991)], implying that the Three-Box example is neither quantal nor a paradox and leaving one less difficulty to busy the interpreters of quantum mechanics. An ambiguity in the usual expression of the retrodiction formula is shown to have misled Albert, Aharonov, and D'Amato [Phys. Rev. Lett. 54, 5 (1985)] to a result not, in fact, "curious"; the discussion illustrates how to avoid this ambiguity.

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