{
  "id": "0710.5945",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2007-10-31T19:58:18.000Z",
  "updated": "2007-10-31T19:58:18.000Z",
  "title": "Objective and Subjective Probabilities in Quantum Mechanics",
  "authors": [
    "Leslie Ballentine"
  ],
  "comment": "Paper given at a conference in Vaxjo, Sweden, 11 June 2007",
  "doi": "10.1063/1.2827319",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "The concept of probability was prominent in the original foundations of quantum mechanics, and continues to be so today. Indeed, the controversies regarding objective and subjective interpretations of probability have again become active. I argue that, although both objective and subjective probabilities have domains of relevance in QM, their roles are quite distinct. Even where both are legitimate, the objective and subjective probabilities differ, both conceptually and numerically. There are quantum probabilities that have no useful subjective interpretations, and there are subjective probabilities that cannot be realized as quantum probabilities.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2007-10-31T19:58:18.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.65.Ta",
      "03.67.-a",
      "02.50.Cw"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "probability",
      "quantum mechanics",
      "quantum probabilities",
      "subjective interpretations",
      "original foundations"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper",
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 0,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2007AIPC..962...28B"
    }
  }
}