Stephen L. Adler
Published 2000-04-19Version 1
The role of probability in quantum mechanics is reviewed, with a discussion of the ``orthodox'' versus the statistical interpretive frameworks, and of a number of related issues. After a brief summary of sources of unease with quantum mechanics, a survey is given of attempts either to give a new interpretive framework assuming quantum mechanics is exact, or to modify quantum mechanics assuming it is a very accurate approximation to a more fundamental theory. This survey focuses particularly on the issues of whether probabilities in quantum mechanics are postulated or emergent.
Comments: Latex; Submitted to the Proceedings of the Ischia Conference on ``Chance in Physics: Foundations and Perspectives''
What is orthodox quantum mechanics?
No-signalling-based version of Zurek's derivation of quantum probabilities: A note on "Environment-assisted invariance, entanglement, and probabilities in quantum physics"
Multiparticle entanglement as an emergent phenomenon
