A possible operational motivation for the orthocomplementation in quantum structures

DOI10.1007/S10701-010-9464-9MaRDI QIDQ618790zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Bart D'Hooghe

Publication date 17 January 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-010-9464-9

zbMATH Keywords

foundations of quantum mechanicsGleason's theoremHilbert latticeorthocomplementationorthomodular latticePiron-Solèr theoremquantum structuresstate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Complemented lattices, orthocomplemented lattices and posets (06C15) Hilbert subspaces (= operator ranges); complementation (Aronszajn, de Branges, etc.) (46C07) Characterizations of Hilbert spaces (46C15) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10)

Review text

In the foundations of quantum mechanics, Gleason's theorem dictates the uniqueness of the state transition probability. The author argues that the state transition probability could be regarded as a primitive concept instead of being derived from the structure on the set of states and properties. He adopts an operational approach to quantum mechanics in which a physical entity is defined by the structure of its set of states, set of properties, and the possible (measurement) contexts (State-Context-Property formalism, SCOP). Two Gleason-like conditions are proved to imply orthocomplementation of the lattice of properties, thus providing a motivation for one of the ``quantum axioms used in the Piron-Solèr representation theorem. None of these conditions appears to be necessary.

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