Any modification of the Born rule leads to a violation of the purification and local tomography principles

Using the existing classification of all alternatives to the measurement postulates of quantum theory we study the properties of bi-partite systems in these alternative theories. We prove that in all these theories the purification principle is violated, meaning that some mixed states are not the re...

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Main Authors: Thomas D. Galley, Lluis Masanes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Verein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2018-11-01
Series:Quantum
Online Access:https://quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2018-11-06-104/pdf/