%0 Generic %1 shrapnel2017updating %A Shrapnel, Sally %A Costa, Fabio %A Milburn, Gerard %D 2017 %K %T Updating the Born rule %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01845 %X Despite the tremendous empirical success of quantum theory there is still widespread disagreement about what it can tell us about the nature of the world. A central question is whether the theory is about our knowledge of reality, or a direct statement about reality itself. Regardless of their stance on this question, current interpretations of quantum theory regard the Born rule as fundamental and add an independent state-update (or "collapse") rule to describe how quantum states change upon measurement. In this paper we present an alternative perspective and derive a probability rule that subsumes both the Born rule and the collapse rule. We show that this more fundamental probability rule can provide a rigorous foundation for informational, or "knowledge-based", interpretations of quantum theory.

@misc{shrapnel2017updating, abstract = {Despite the tremendous empirical success of quantum theory there is still widespread disagreement about what it can tell us about the nature of the world. A central question is whether the theory is about our knowledge of reality, or a direct statement about reality itself. Regardless of their stance on this question, current interpretations of quantum theory regard the Born rule as fundamental and add an independent state-update (or "collapse") rule to describe how quantum states change upon measurement. In this paper we present an alternative perspective and derive a probability rule that subsumes both the Born rule and the collapse rule. We show that this more fundamental probability rule can provide a rigorous foundation for informational, or "knowledge-based", interpretations of quantum theory.}, added-at = {2017-02-09T09:53:22.000+0100}, author = {Shrapnel, Sally and Costa, Fabio and Milburn, Gerard}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/261888c619600d38dedd206801f1ae2ac/klhamm}, description = {[1702.01845] Updating the Born rule}, interhash = {b1568956475acb4721a31fdb3a174d11}, intrahash = {61888c619600d38dedd206801f1ae2ac}, keywords = {}, note = {cite arxiv:1702.01845Comment: 6+2 pages; 3 figures}, timestamp = {2017-02-09T09:53:22.000+0100}, title = {Updating the Born rule}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1702.01845}, year = 2017 }