Probabilities for Quantum Histories I . The Born Rule
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2 General Formalism 3 2.1 Single initial state . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 2.3 Initial basis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.4 Initial and final decomposition of the identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
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تاریخ انتشار 2010