The Beta-Bound: Drift constraints for Gated Quantum Probabilities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22188v1
• Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:36:31 GMT
• Title: The Beta-Bound: Drift constraints for Gated Quantum Probabilities
• Authors: Jonathon Sendall,
• Abstract summary: This paper develops a measurement-theoretic framework for projective gating.<n>The central object is the $$-bound, an inequality that controls how much probability assignments can drift when gating and measurement fail to commute.<n>Three experimental vignettes demonstrate falsifiability.
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• Abstract: Quantum mechanics provides extraordinarily accurate probabilistic predictions, yet the framework remains silent on what distinguishes quantum systems from definite measurement outcomes. This paper develops a measurement-theoretic framework for projective gating. The central object is the $β$-bound, an inequality that controls how much probability assignments can drift when gating and measurement fail to commute. For a density operator $ρ$, projector $F$, and effect $E$, with gate-passage probability $s = {\rm Tr}(ρF)$ and commutator norm $\varepsilon = \|[F, E]\|$, the symmetric partial-gating drift satisfies $|Δp_F(E)| \leq 2 \sqrt{(1 - s)/s} \cdot \varepsilon$. The constant 2 is sharp. We introduce two diagnostic quantities: the coherence witness $W(ρ, F) = \|F ρ(I - F)\|_1$, measuring cross-boundary coherence, and the record fidelity gap $Δ_T(ρ_F, R)$, measuring expectation-value change under symmetrisation. Three experimental vignettes demonstrate falsifiability: Hong--Ou--Mandel interferometry, atomic energy-basis dephasing, and decoherence-induced classicality. The framework is operational and interpretation-neutral, compatible with Everettian, Bohmian, QBist, and collapse approaches. It provides quantitative structure that any interpretation must accommodate, along with a template for experimental tests.

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