Three Slit Experiments and the Structure of Quantum Theory
arXiv:0909.4787 · doi:10.1007/s10701-010-9429-z
Abstract
In spite of the interference manifested in the double-slit experiment, quantum theory predicts that a measure of interference defined by Sorkin and involving various outcome probabilities from an experiment with three slits, is identically zero. We adapt Sorkin's measure into a general operational probabilistic framework for physical theories, and then study its relationship to the structure of quantum theory. In particular, we characterize the class of probabilistic theories for which the interference measure is zero as ones in which it is possible to fully determine the state of a system via specific sets of 'two-slit' experiments.
7 pages, 1 figure. To appear in Foundations of Physics - Advances in Quantum Foundations issue
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