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View SchemaA condition for any realistic theory of quantum systems
| Authors | Alberto Montina |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0604155 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0604155 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.180401 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 180401 (2006) |
Abstract
In quantum physics, the density operator completely describes the state. Instead, in classical physics the mean value of every physical quantity is evaluated by means of a probability distribution. We study the possibility to describe pure quantum states and events with classical probability distributions and conditional probabilities and prove that the distributions can not be quadratic functions of the quantum state. Some examples are considered. Finally, we deal with the exponential complexity problem of quantum physics and introduce the concept of classical dimension for a quantum system.
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