Quantum theory as a description of robust experiments: application to Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments

H. De Raedt; M. I. Katsnelson; H. C. Donker; K. Michielsen

doi:10.1117/12.2185704

10 September 2015 Quantum theory as a description of robust experiments: application to Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments

H. De Raedt, M. I. Katsnelson, H. C. Donker, K. Michielsen

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Proceedings Volume 9570, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? VI; 957002 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2185704
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We propose and develop the thesis that the quantum theoretical description of experiments emerges from the desire to organize experimental data such that the description of the system under scrutiny and the one used to acquire the data are separated as much as possible. Application to the Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments are shown to support this thesis. General principles of logical inference which have been shown to lead to the Schrödinger and Pauli equation and the probabilistic descriptions of the Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments, are used to demonstrate that the condition for the separation procedure to yield the quantum theoretical description is intimately related to the assumptions that the observed events are independent and that the data generated by these experiments is robust with respect to small changes of the conditions under which the experiment is carried out.

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H. De Raedt, M. I. Katsnelson, H. C. Donker, and K. Michielsen "Quantum theory as a description of robust experiments: application to Stern-Gerlach and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments", Proc. SPIE 9570, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? VI, 957002 (10 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2185704

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