Discreteness and the origin of probability in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2006.07.050MaRDI QIDQ712807zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

zbMATH Keywords

Born rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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.

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