Probability Theory with Superposition Events: A Classical Generalization
in the Direction of Quantum Mechanics
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09918v1
- Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 14:58:08 GMT
- Title: Probability Theory with Superposition Events: A Classical Generalization
in the Direction of Quantum Mechanics
- Authors: David Ellerman
- Abstract summary: In finite probability theory, events are subsets of the outcome set.
Probabilities are introduced for classical events, superposition events, and their mixtures.
The transformation of the density matrices induced by the experiments or measurements' is the Luders mixture operation.
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- Abstract: In finite probability theory, events are subsets of the outcome set. Subsets
can be represented by 1-dimensional column vectors. By extending the
representation of events to two dimensional matrices, we can introduce
"superposition events." Probabilities are introduced for classical events,
superposition events, and their mixtures by using density matrices. Then
probabilities for experiments or `measurements' of all these events can be
determined in a manner exactly like in quantum mechanics (QM) using density
matrices. Moreover the transformation of the density matrices induced by the
experiments or `measurements' is the Luders mixture operation as in QM. And
finally by moving the machinery into the n-dimensional vector space over Z_2,
different basis sets become different outcome sets. That `non-commutative'
extension of finite probability theory yields the pedagogical model of quantum
mechanics over Z_2 that can model many characteristic non-classical results of
QM.
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