Imprecise probability for non-commuting observables
classification
🪐 quant-ph
physics.data-an
keywords
probabilitynon-commutingjointobservablesimpreciselowerupperadditive
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It is known that non-commuting observables in quantum mechanics do not have joint probability. This statement refers to the precise (additive) probability model. I show that the joint distribution of any non-commuting pair of variables can be quantified via upper and lower probabilities, i.e. the joint probability is described by an interval instead of a number (imprecise probability). I propose transparent axioms from which the upper and lower probability operators follow. They depend only on the non-commuting observables and revert to the usual expression for the commuting case.
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