Derivation of the Born rule from operational assumptions

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 460, Issue 2046, 2004, Pages 1771-1788

  Saunders, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Born rule; Everett interpretation; Operationalism; Quantum probability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; THEORY;

EID: 2542622727     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2003.1230     Document Type: Article

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