An Information-Theoretic Approach to Quantum Theory, II: The Formal Rules of Quantum Theory

dc.creatorGoyal, Philip
dc.date2007-02-15
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:47:08Z
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dc.descriptionIn a companion paper (hereafter referred to as Paper I), we have presented an attempt to derive the finite-dimensional abstract quantum formalism from a set of physically comprehensible assumptions. In this paper, we formulate a correspondence principle, the Average-Value Correspondence Principle, that allows relations between measurement outcomes which are known to hold in a classical model of a system to be systematically taken over into the quantum model of the system. Using this principle, we derive the explicit form of the temporal evolution operator (thereby completing the derivation of the abstract quantum formalism begun in Paper I), and derive many of the formal rules (such as operator rules, commutation relations, and Dirac's Poisson bracket rule) that are needed to apply the abstract quantum formalism to model particular physical systems.
dc.description20 pages, 3 figures, revtex4. Comments welcome
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702149
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702149
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/124064
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleAn Information-Theoretic Approach to Quantum Theory, II: The Formal Rules of Quantum Theory
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