Characterizing common cause closedness of quantum probability theories

DOI10.1016/J.SHPSB.2015.08.003MaRDI QIDQ905664zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Yuichiro Kitajima, Miklós Rédei

Publication date 27 January 2016

Published in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.04410, http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/63301/1/__lse.ac.uk_storage_LIBRARY_Secondary_libfile_shared_repository_Content_R%C3%A9dei%2C%20M_Characterizing%20common%20cause_Redei_Characterizing%20common%20cause_2016.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

orthomodular latticescommon cause principleReichenbachian common cause

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum logic (03G12) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10) Complemented lattices, orthocomplemented lattices and posets (06C15)

Abstract: We prove new results on common cause closedness of quantum probability spaces, where by a quantum probability space is meant the projection lattice of a non-commutative von Neumann algebra together with a countably additive probability measure on the lattice. Common cause closedness is the feature that for every correlation between a pair of commuting projections there exists in the lattice a third projection commuting with both of the correlated projections and which is a Reichenbachian common cause of the correlation. The main result we prove is that a quantum probability space is common cause closed if and only if it has at most one measure theoretic atom. This result improves earlier ones published in Z. GyenisZ and M. Redei Erkenntnis 79 (2014) 435-451. The result is discussed from the perspective of status of the Common Cause Principle. Open problems on common cause closedness of general probability spaces $(mathcalL,phi)$ are formulated, where $mathcalL$ is an orthomodular bounded lattice and $phi$ is a probability measure on $mathcalL$.

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