Reasonable conditions for joint probabilities of non-commuting observables
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DOI10.1007/S40509-014-0010-XzbMATH Open1304.81025arXiv1404.6327OpenAlexW2049812764MaRDI QIDQ482050FDOQ482050
Authors: Holger F. Hofmann 
Publication date: 19 December 2014
Published in: Quantum Studies: Mathematics and Foundations (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: In the operator formalism of quantum mechanics, the density operator describes the complete statistics of a quantum state in terms of d^2 independent elements, where d is the number of possible outcomes for a precise measurement of an observable. In principle, it is therefore possible to express the density operator by a joint probability of two observables that cannot actually be measured jointly because they do not have any common eigenstates. However, such joint probabilities do not refer to an actual measurement outcome, so their definition cannot be based on a set of possible events. Here, I consider the criteria that could specify a unique mathematical form of joint probabilities in the quantum formalism. It is shown that a reasonable set of conditions results in the definition of joint probabilities by ordered products of the corresponding projection operators. It is pointed out that this joint probability corresponds to the quasi probabilities that have recently been observed experimentally in weak measurements.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1404.6327
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