Properties of QBist state spaces

DOI10.1007/S10701-010-9458-7MaRDI QIDQ2430445zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors D. M. Appleby, Åsa Ericsson, Christopher A. Fuchs

Publication date 6 April 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.2750

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesianinterpretationquantum-state spaceSIC-POVM

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Set functions, measures and integrals with values in ordered spaces (28B15) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16) Selfadjoint operator theory in quantum theory, including spectral analysis (81Q10)

Abstract: Every quantum state can be represented as a probability distribution over the outcomes of an informationally complete measurement. But not all probability distributions correspond to quantum states. Quantum state space may thus be thought of as a restricted subset of all potentially available probabilities. A recent publication [1] advocates such a representation using symmetric informationally complete (SIC) measurements. Building upon this work we study how this subset--quantum-state space--might be characterized. Our leading characteristic is that the inner products of the probabilities are bounded, a simple condition with nontrivial consequences. To get quantum-state space something more detailed about the extreme points is needed. No definitive characterization is reached, but we see several new interesting features over those in [1], and all in conformity with quantum theory.

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