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quant-ph2022

Entropic Dynamics and Quantum "Measurement"

Ariel Caticha

The entropic dynamics (ED) approach to quantum mechanics is ideally suited to address the problem of measurement because it is based on entropic and Bayesian methods of inference t…

quant-ph2021

Quantum Mechanics as Hamilton-Killing Flows on a Statistical Manifold

Ariel Caticha

The mathematical formalism of Quantum Mechanics is derived or "reconstructed" from more basic considerations of probability theory and information geometry. The starting point is t…

quant-ph2020★ 3 cited

The Entropic Dynamics of Spin

Ariel Caticha, Nicholas Carrara

In the Entropic Dynamics (ED) approach the essence of quantum theory lies in its probabilistic nature while the Hilbert space structure plays a secondary and ultimately optional ro…

quant-ph2019★ 33 cited

The Entropic Dynamics approach to Quantum Mechanics

Ariel Caticha

Entropic Dynamics (ED) is a framework in which Quantum Mechanics is derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. In ED the dynamics of the probability distribution i…

quant-ph2017

Entropic Dynamics: Quantum Mechanics from Entropy and Information Geometry

Ariel Caticha

Entropic Dynamics (ED) is a framework in which Quantum Mechanics (QM) is derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. The magnitude of the wave function is manifestl…

quant-ph2017

Quantum phases in entropic dynamics

Nicholas Carrara, Ariel Caticha

In the Entropic Dynamics framework the dynamics is driven by maximizing entropy subject to appropriate constraints. In this work we bring Entropic Dynamics one step closer to full…

quant-ph2017

Entropic Dynamics: Mechanics without Mechanism

Ariel Caticha

Entropic Dynamics is a framework in which dynamical laws such as those that arise in physics are derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. No underlying action pr…

quant-ph2017★ 19 cited

Quantum Measurement and Weak Values in Entropic Dynamics

Kevin Vanslette, Ariel Caticha

The problem of measurement in quantum mechanics is studied within the Entropic Dynamics framework. We discuss von Neumann and Weak measurements, wavefunction collapse, and Weak Val…

quant-ph2016★ 8 cited

The Classical Limit of Entropic Quantum Dynamics

Anthony Demme, Ariel Caticha

The framework of entropic dynamics (ED) allows one to derive quantum mechanics as an application of entropic inference. In this work we derive the classical limit of quantum mechan…

quant-ph2016★ 20 cited

Trading drift and fluctuations in entropic dynamics: quantum dynamics as an emergent universality class

Daniel Bartolomeo, Ariel Caticha

Entropic Dynamics (ED) is a framework that allows the formulation of dynamical theories as an application of entropic methods of inference. In the generic application of ED to deri…

quant-ph2016

Entropic Dynamics on Curved Spaces

Shahid Nawaz, Mohammad Abedi, Ariel Caticha

Entropic dynamics is a framework in which quantum theory is derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. Entropic dynamics on flat spaces has been extensively studie…

quant-ph2016

Relational Entropic Dynamics of Particles

Selman Ipek, Ariel Caticha

The general framework of entropic dynamics is used to formulate a relational quantum dynamics. The main new idea is to use tools of information geometry to develop an entropic meas…

quant-ph2015★ 10 cited

Entropic Dynamics: The Schroedinger equation and its Bohmian limit

Daniel Bartolomeo, Ariel Caticha

In the Entropic Dynamics (ED) derivation of the Schroedinger equation the physical input is introduced through constraints that are implemented using Lagrange multipliers. There is…

quant-ph2015★ 61 cited

Entropic Dynamics

Ariel Caticha

Entropic Dynamics is a framework in which dynamical laws are derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. No underlying action principle is postulated. Instead, the…

quant-ph2014★ 21 cited

Entropic Quantization of Scalar Fields

Selman Ipek, Ariel Caticha

Entropic Dynamics is an information-based framework that seeks to derive the laws of physics as an application of the methods of entropic inference. The dynamics is derived by maxi…

quant-ph2014★ 19 cited

Entropic Dynamics: from Entropy and Information Geometry to Hamiltonians and Quantum Mechanics

Ariel Caticha, Daniel Bartolomeo, Marcel Reginatto

Entropic Dynamics is a framework in which quantum theory is derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. There is no underlying action principle. Instead, the dynami…

quant-ph2014★ 24 cited

Entropic Dynamics: an Inference Approach to Quantum Theory, Time and Measurement

Ariel Caticha

We review the derivation of quantum theory as an application of entropic methods of inference. The new contribution in this paper is a streamlined derivation of the Schrödinger equ…

quant-ph2012★ 2 cited

The Entropic Dynamics of Relativistic Quantum Fields

Ariel Caticha

The formulation of quantum mechanics within the framework of entropic dynamics is extended to the domain of relativistic quantum fields. The result is a non-dissipative relativisti…

quant-ph2011★ 24 cited

Entropic Dynamics and the Quantum Measurement Problem

David T. Johnson, Ariel Caticha

We explore the measurement problem in the entropic dynamics approach to quantum theory. The dual modes of quantum evolution---either continuous unitary evolution or abrupt wave fun…

quant-ph2011★ 17 cited

Momentum and Uncertainty Relations in the Entropic Approach to Quantum Theory

Shahid Nawaz, Ariel Caticha

In the Entropic Dynamics (ED) approach to quantum theory the particles have well-defined positions but since they follow non differentiable Brownian trajectories they cannot be ass…

quant-ph2010★ 16 cited

Entropic Time

Ariel Caticha

The formulation of quantum mechanics within the framework of entropic dynamics includes several new elements. In this paper we concentrate on one of them: the implications for the…

quant-ph2010★ 4 cited

Non-relativistic Gravity in Entropic Quantum Dynamics

David T. Johnson, Ariel Caticha

Symmetries and transformations are explored in the framework of entropic quantum dynamics. Two conditions arise that are required for any transformation to qualify as a symmetry. T…

quant-ph2010★ 61 cited

Entropic Dynamics, Time and Quantum Theory

Ariel Caticha

Quantum mechanics is derived as an application of the method of maximum entropy. No appeal is made to any underlying classical action principle whether deterministic or stochastic.…

quant-ph2009★ 3 cited

From Entropic Dynamics to Quantum Theory

Ariel Caticha

Non-relativistic quantum theory is derived from information codified into an appropriate statistical model. The basic assumption is that there is an irreducible uncertainty in the…