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Title: | Testing born's rule in quantum mechanics with a triple slit experiment |
Authors: | Sinha, Urbasi Couteau, Christophe Medendorp, Zachari Söllner, Immo Laflamme, Raymond Sorkin, Rafael D. Weihs, Gregor |
Keywords: | Foundations of quantum mechanics measurement theory Probability theory, Quantum computation |
Issue Date: | Mar-2009 |
Publisher: | American Institute of Physics |
Citation: | AIP Conference Proceedings Vol.1101 , 2009, p200-207 |
Abstract: | In Mod. Phys. Lett. A 9, 3119 (1994), one of us (R.D.S) investigated a formulation of quantum mechanics as a generalized measure theory. Quantum mechanics computes probabilities from the absolute squares of complex amplitudes, and the resulting interference violates the (Kolmogorov) sum rule expressing the additivity of probabilities of mutually exclusive events. However, there is a higher order sum rule that quantum mechanics does obey, involving the probabilities of three mutually exclusive possibilities. We could imagine a yet more general theory by assuming that it violates the next higher sum rule. In this paper, we report results from an ongoing experiment which sets out to test the validity of this second sum rule by measuring the interference patterns produced by three slits and all the possible combinations of those slits being open or closed. We use an attenuated laser light combined with single photon counting to confirm the particle character of the measured light. |
Description: | Restricted Access. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/5289 |
Alternative Location: | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009AIPC.1101..200S http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3109942 |
Copyright: | 2009 American Institute of Physics |
Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (LAMP) |
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