Maximilian Schlosshauer, Arthur Fine
Published 2003-12-06, updated 2004-09-22Version 3
Recently, W. H. Zurek presented a novel derivation of the Born rule based on a mechanism termed environment-assisted invariance, or "envariance" [W. H. Zurek, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90(2), 120404 (2003)]. We review this approach and identify fundamental assumptions that have implicitly entered into it, emphasizing issues that any such derivation is likely to face.
Comments: 8 pages; v2: minor clarifications added; v3: reference to Zurek's quant-ph/0405161 added. To appear in Foundations of Physics (Cushing Volume)
Journal: Found. Phys. 35(2), 197-213 (2005)
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