Quantum Bayesian nets

DOI10.1142/S0217979295000148MaRDI QIDQ4925315zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Robert R. Tucci

Publication date 12 June 2013

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9706039

zbMATH Keywords

CB netsQB netsStern-Gerlach magnets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

Abstract: We begin with a review of a well known class of networks, Classical Bayesian (CB) nets (also called causal probabilistic nets by some). Given a situation which includes randomness, CB nets are used to calculate the probabilities of various hypotheses about the situation, conditioned on the available evidence. We introduce a new class of networks, which we call Quantum Bayesian (QB) nets, that generalize CB nets to the quantum mechanical regime. We explain how to use QB nets to calculate quantum mechanical conditional probabilities (in case of either sharp or fuzzy observations), and discuss the connection of QB nets to Feynman Path integrals. We give examples of QB nets that involve a single spin-half particle passing through a configuration of two or three Stern-Gerlach magnets. For the examples given, we present the numerical values of various conditional probabilities, as calculated by a general computer program especially written for this purpose.

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