Towards a formulation of quantum theory as a causally neutral theory of Bayesian inference

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 88, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Leifer, M S ^a,b   Spekkens, Robert W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN CONDITIONING; BAYESIAN INFERENCE; BELIEF PROPAGATION; CLASSICAL PROBABILITIES; ENSEMBLE AVERAGING; POSITIVE OPERATOR VALUED MEASURE; PREDICTIVE INFERENCES; UNIFIED DESCRIPTION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTS; INFERENCE ENGINES; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84890319089     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.88.052130     Document Type: Article

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