How interference effects in mixtures determine the rules of quantum mechanics

1 September 1994

journal article
research article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A

Vol. 50 (3) , 2108-2119
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.50.2108

Abstract

It is shown that the elementary indistinguishability properties of partially polarized mixtures are consistent only with the conventional Hilbert space model of quantum mechanics and a few exotic alternatives. This applies even in low dimensions where quantum logic and Gleason’s theorem give either weak or no constraints. The experimental methods for eliminating the exotic cases (which include quaternionic and octonionic variants of quantum mechanics) are described.

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