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Appleby, Marcus, Fuchs, Christopher A., Stacey, Blake C. and Zhu, Huangjun (2017). Introducing the Qplex: a novel arena for quantum theory. Eur. Phys. J. D, 71 (7). NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1434-6079

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Abstract

We reconstruct quantum theory starting from the premise that, as Asher Peres remarked, Unperformed experiments have no results. The tools of quantum information theory, and in particular the symmetric informationally complete (SIC) measurements, provide a concise expression of how exactly Peres's dictum holds true. That expression is a constraint on how the probability distributions for outcomes of different, hypothetical and mutually exclusive experiments ought to mesh together, a type of constraint not foreseen in classical thinking. Taking this as our foundational principle, we show how to reconstruct the formalism of quantum theory in finite-dimensional Hilbert spaces. The central variety of mathematical entity in our reconstruction is the qplex, a very particular type of subset of a probability simplex. Along the way, by closely studying the symmetry properties of qplexes, we derive a condition for the existence of a d-dimensional SIC.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Appleby, Marcus UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fuchs, Christopher A. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Stacey, Blake C. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Zhu, Huangjun UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-224700
DOI:	10.1140/epjd/e2017-80024-y
Journal or Publication Title:	Eur. Phys. J. D
Volume:	71
Number:	7
Date:	2017
Publisher:	SPRINGER
Place of Publication:	NEW YORK
ISSN:	1434-6079
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language INFORMATION; STATES; SPACE Multiple languages Optics; Physics, Atomic, Molecular & Chemical Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/22470