Deriving Born's rule from an inference to the best explanation

DOI10.1007/S10701-020-00326-8MaRDI QIDQ828396zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alexia Auffèves, Philippe Grangier

Publication date 8 January 2021

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.13738

zbMATH Keywords

Born's rulequantum mechanicsGleason's theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

Abstract: In previous articles we presented a simple set of axioms named Contexts, Systems and Modalities (CSM), where the structure of quantum mechanics appears as a result of the interplay between the quantized number of modalities accessible to a quantum system, and the continuum of contexts that are required to define these modalities. In the present article we discuss further how to obtain (or rather infer) Born's rule within this framework. Our approach is compared with other former and recent derivations, and its strong links with Gleason's theorem are particularly emphasized.

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