Probability in modal interpretations of quantum mechanics
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DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2006.05.005zbMATH Open1223.81023arXivquant-ph/0703020OpenAlexW2114250690MaRDI QIDQ643115FDOQ643115
Authors: Dennis Dieks 
Publication date: 27 October 2011
Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Modal interpretations have the ambition to construe quantum mechanics as an objective, man-independent description of physical reality. Their second leading idea is probabilism: quantum mechanics does not completely fix physical reality but yields probabilities. In working out these ideas an important motif is to stay close to the standard formalism of quantum mechanics and to refrain from introducing new structure by hand. In this paper we explain how this programme can be made concrete. In particular, we show that the Born probability rule, and sets of definite-valued observables to which the Born probabilities pertain, can be uniquely defined from the quantum state and Hilbert space structure. We discuss the status of probability in modal interpretations, and to this end we make a comparison with many-worlds alternatives. An overall point that we stress is that the modal ideas define a general framework and research programme rather than one definite and finished interpretation.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0703020
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