Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction to the Cambridge University Press Edition
- Introduction to the Original ArXiv.org Posting
- Disclaimers
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Letters to David Baker
- 2 Letters to Howard Baker
- 3 Letters to Howard Barnum
- 4 Letters to Paul Benioff
- 5 Letters to Charlie Bennett
- 6 Letters to Herb Bernstein
- 7 Letters to Doug Bilodeau
- 8 Letters to Gilles Brassard
- 9 Letters to Jeffrey Bub
- 10 Letters to Carlton Caves
- 11 Letters to Greg Comer
- 12 Letters to Charles Enz
- 13 Letters to Henry Folse
- 14 Letters to Bob Griffiths
- 15 Letters to Adrian Kent
- 16 Letters to Rolf Landauer
- 17 Letters to Hideo Mabuchi
- 18 Letters to David Mermin
- 19 Letters to David Meyer
- 20 Letters to Jeff Nicholson
- 21 Letters to Michael Nielsen
- 22 Letters to Asher Peres
- 23 Diary of a Carefully Worded Paper: More Letters to Asher Peres
- 24 Letters to John Preskill
- 25 Letters to Joseph Renes
- 26 Letters to Mary Beth Ruskai
- 27 Letters to Rüdiger Schack
- 28 Letters to Robert Schumann
- 29 Letters to Abner Shimony
- 30 Letters to Jon Waskan
- 31 Letters to Bill Wootters
- 32 Letters to Anton Zeilinger
- 33 Other Letters
- Postpartum
- Index of Names
18 - Letters to David Mermin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction to the Cambridge University Press Edition
- Introduction to the Original ArXiv.org Posting
- Disclaimers
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Letters to David Baker
- 2 Letters to Howard Baker
- 3 Letters to Howard Barnum
- 4 Letters to Paul Benioff
- 5 Letters to Charlie Bennett
- 6 Letters to Herb Bernstein
- 7 Letters to Doug Bilodeau
- 8 Letters to Gilles Brassard
- 9 Letters to Jeffrey Bub
- 10 Letters to Carlton Caves
- 11 Letters to Greg Comer
- 12 Letters to Charles Enz
- 13 Letters to Henry Folse
- 14 Letters to Bob Griffiths
- 15 Letters to Adrian Kent
- 16 Letters to Rolf Landauer
- 17 Letters to Hideo Mabuchi
- 18 Letters to David Mermin
- 19 Letters to David Meyer
- 20 Letters to Jeff Nicholson
- 21 Letters to Michael Nielsen
- 22 Letters to Asher Peres
- 23 Diary of a Carefully Worded Paper: More Letters to Asher Peres
- 24 Letters to John Preskill
- 25 Letters to Joseph Renes
- 26 Letters to Mary Beth Ruskai
- 27 Letters to Rüdiger Schack
- 28 Letters to Robert Schumann
- 29 Letters to Abner Shimony
- 30 Letters to Jon Waskan
- 31 Letters to Bill Wootters
- 32 Letters to Anton Zeilinger
- 33 Other Letters
- Postpartum
- Index of Names
Summary
September 1996, “Theorem II”
I encountered your “Ithaca Interpretation” paper this morning on the quant-ph archive … and, I must say, I've been walking around with a nice feeling since. There are some things in it that I like very much!
Your Theorem II (or a very slight variation of it) has indeed been proven before, by Bill Wootters. I'll attach the citations below along with part of a note Bill once sent me. (Interestingly, one can also make a cut between real, complex, and quaternionic Hilbert spaces based on such a theorem.)
About your Theorem I, if I am not mistaken, it also has a history that predates the references you gave. I believe Richard Jozsa once told me that a fellow named Hadjisavvas found it well before HJW and Gisin. If you are interested you can contact Richard directly; his e-mail address is.…
As I say, I enjoyed your paper very much! (Presently) I think my only point of departure in what you say is about the issue of “objective probability.” Carl Caves and I (in still another paper cited below which can be found on quant-ph, pp. 22–26 in particular) have advocated the view that even the probabilities of quantum theory should be interpreted in a Bayesian or subjective way. We prefer to say that it is the “indeterminism” of quantum mechanics that is “objective,” and not the probabilities themselves.
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- Coming of Age With Quantum InformationNotes on a Paulian Idea, pp. 217 - 273Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011