General Probabilistic Theories with a Gleason-type Theorem

Date: 2020-06-24
Time: 14:00
Location: https://zoom.us/j/7763535903?pwd=Q1VwQWhHME9GcjBJaUhEZWoxazhDdz09
ICTQT Seminar

Speaker: Victoria Wright, ICTQT

Abstract

General probabilistic theories are shown to admit a Gleason-type theorem if and only if they satisfy the no-restriction hypothesis, or a “noisy” version of the hypothesis. Therefore, in precisely these theories we recover the state space by assuming that (i) states consistently assign probabilities to measurement outcomes and (ii) there is a unique state for every such assignment.

Link to the paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.14166

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