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A possible explanation of the superposition principle

Authors	Kent A. Peacock
Categories	quant-ph
ArXiv ID	quant-ph/0209082
URL	https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0209082

Abstract

I tentatively suggest that the superposition principle of quantum mechanics is explicable in a mathematically natural way if it is possible to understand probability amplitudes as complex-valued logarithms. This notion is inspired by the fact that the quantum state may be interpreted as a measure of information.

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