Quantum histories without contrary inferences

DOI10.1016/J.AOP.2014.09.008zbMATH Open1360.81032arXiv1405.5166OpenAlexW3099523491MaRDI QIDQ527641FDOQ527641

Authors: Marcelo Losada, Roberto Laura 

Publication date: 12 May 2017

Published in: Annals of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In the consistent histories formulation of quantum theory it was shown that it is possible to retrodict contrary properties. We show that this problem do not appear in our formalism of generalized contexts for quantum histories.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.5166

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zbMATH Keywords

consistent historiesgeneralized contextsquantum historiescontrary properties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13)

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