Everett's missing postulate and the Born rule

DOI10.1007/S10701-020-00338-4MaRDI QIDQ2072035zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Per Arve

Publication date 31 January 2022

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.05521

zbMATH Keywords

Born ruleEverett's interpretationprobability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Uncertainty relations, also entropic (81S07) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: Everett's Relative State Interpretation has gained increasing interest due to the progress of understanding the role of decoherence. In order to fulfill its promise as a realistic description of the physical world, two postulates are formulated. In short they are 1) for a system with continuous coordinates $vecx$, discrete variable $j$, and state $ps{i}_j(vecx)$, the density $h{o}_j(vecx)=|ps{i}_j(vecx){|}^2$ gives the distribution of the location of the system with the respect to the variables $vecx$ and $j$; 2) an equation of motion for the state $ihbarpartia{l}_{t}psi=Hpsi$. The first postulate connects the mathematical description to the physical reality, which has been missing in previous versions. The contents of the standard (Copenhagen) postulates are derived, including the appearance of Hilbert space and the Born rule. The approach to probabilities earlier proposed by Greaves replaces the classical probability concept in the Born rule. The new quantum probability concept, earlier advocated by Deutsch and Wallace, is void of the requirement of uncertainty.

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