Ignorance is a bliss: Mathematical structure of many-box models

DOI10.1063/1.5027205MaRDI QIDQ4635277zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Tomasz I. Tylec, Marek Kuś

Publication date 16 April 2018

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03423

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Classical propositional logic (03B05) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum logic (03G12) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10) Complemented lattices, orthocomplemented lattices and posets (06C15)

Abstract: We show that the propositional system of a many-box model is always a set-representable effect algebra. In particular cases of 2-box and 1-box models it is an orthomodular poset and an orthomodular lattice respectively. We discuss the relation of the obtained results with the so-called Local Orthogonality principle. We argue that non-classical properties of box models are the result of a dual enrichment of the set of states caused by the impoverishment of the set of propositions. On the other hand, quantum mechanical models always have more propositions as well as more states than the classical ones. Consequently, we show that the box models cannot be considered as generalizations of quantum mechanical models and seeking for additional principles that could allow to "recover quantum correlations" in box models is, at least from the fundamental point of view, pointless.

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