تقرير
Quantum probability from temporal structure
| العنوان: | Quantum probability from temporal structure |
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| المؤلفون: | Ridley, Michael |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| المجموعة: | Mathematics Condensed Matter Mathematical Physics Physics (Other) Quantum Physics |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Quantum Physics, Condensed Matter - Statistical Mechanics, Mathematical Physics, Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics |
| الوصف: | The Born probability measure describes the statistics of measurements in which observers self-locate themselves in some region of reality. In $\psi$-ontic quantum theories, reality is directly represented by the wavefunction. We show that quantum probabilities may be identified with fractions of a universal multiple-time wavefunction containing both causal and retrocausal temporal parts. This wavefunction is defined in an appropriately generalized history space on the Keldysh time contour. Our deterministic formulation of quantum mechanics replaces the initial condition of standard Schr\"odinger dynamics with a network of `fixed points' defining quantum histories on the contour. The Born measure is derived by summing up the wavefunction along these histories. We then apply the same technique to the derivation of the statistics of measurements with pre- and post-selection. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
| URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.10929 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2112.10929 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
| الوصف غير متاح. |