Testing Born´s rule in quantum mechanics for three nutually exclusive events

Author

Söllner, Immo ; Sinha, Urbasi ; Weihs, Gregor ; Sorkin, Rafael ; Laflamme, Raymond ; Medendorp, Zachari ; Couteau, Christophe

Author_Institution

Inst. for Quantum Comput., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

fYear

2009

fDate

14-19 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

1

Abstract

This study sets out to test Born\´s rule to verify the fundamental postulates of quantum mechanics. This study looks for any deviation from the quantum mechanical triadditivity of three mutually exclusive events. Experimentally, a "three-path interference" that can not be explained through the Born interpretation of probabilities is investigated. An upper bound on any such possible deviation from Born\´s rule is determined.

Keywords

light interference; probability; quantum optics; Born rule; mutually exclusive events; probabilities; quantum mechanical triadditivity; quantum mechanics; three-path interference; Apertures; Equations; History; Interference; Mechanical variables measurement; Physics computing; Principal component analysis; Quantum computing; Quantum mechanics; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics 2009 and the European Quantum Electronics Conference. CLEO Europe - EQEC 2009. European Conference on

Conference_Location

Munich

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4079-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4080-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOE-EQEC.2009.5191564

Filename

5191564