Discreteness and the origin of probability in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2006.07.050zbMATH Open1248.81004arXivhep-th/0606062OpenAlexW2013598141MaRDI QIDQ712807FDOQ712807

Authors: Roman V. Buniy, Stephen D. H. Hsu, Anthony Zee 

Publication date: 18 October 2012

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Attempts to derive the Born rule, either in the Many Worlds or Copenhagen interpretation, are unsatisfactory for systems with only a finite number of degrees of freedom. In the case of Many Worlds this is a serious problem, since its goal is to account for apparent collapse phenomena, including the Born rule for probabilities, assuming only unitary evolution of the wavefunction. For finite number of degrees of freedom, observers on the vast majority of branches would not deduce the Born rule. However, discreteness of the quantum state space, even if extremely tiny, may restore the validity of the usual arguments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/0606062

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zbMATH Keywords

Born rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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