General Probabilistic Theories with a Gleason-type Theorem

Gleason-type theorems for quantum theory allow one to recover the quantum state space by assuming that (i) states consistently assign probabilities to measurement outcomes and that (ii) there is a unique state for every such assignment. We identify the class of general probabilistic theories which a...

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Autores principales: Victoria J Wright, Stefan Weigert
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Publicado: Verein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/b8ed8507fdb2434494d706fcb8140c31
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Sumario:Gleason-type theorems for quantum theory allow one to recover the quantum state space by assuming that (i) states consistently assign probabilities to measurement outcomes and that (ii) there is a unique state for every such assignment. We identify the class of general probabilistic theories which also admit Gleason-type theorems. It contains theories satisfying the no-restriction hypothesis as well as others which can simulate such an unrestricted theory arbitrarily well when allowing for post-selection on measurement outcomes. Our result also implies that the standard no-restriction hypothesis applied to effects is not equivalent to the dual no-restriction hypothesis applied to states which is found to be less restrictive.