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View Schema"Quantal" behavior in classical probability
| Authors | K. A. Kirkpatrick |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0106072 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0106072 |
| Journal | Found Phys Lett 16(3), 199-224 (2003) |
Abstract
A number of phenomena generally believed characteristic of quantum mechanics and seen as interpretively problematic--the incompatibility and value-indeterminacy of variables, the non-existence of dispersion-free states, the failure of the standard marginal-probability formula, the failure of the distributive law of disjunction and interference--are exemplified in an emphatically non-quantal system: a deck of playing cards. Thus the appearance, in quantum mechanics, of incompatibility and these associated phenomena requires neither explanation nor interpretation.
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