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Interpreting symplectic linear transformations in a two-qubit phase space
William K. Wootters
For the continuous Wigner function and for certain discrete Wigner functions, permuting the values of the Wigner function in accordance with a symplectic linear transformation is e…
A classical formulation of quantum theory?
William F. Braasch, William K. Wootters
We explore a particular way of reformulating quantum theory in classical terms, starting with phase space rather than Hilbert space, and with actual probability distributions rathe…
A quantum prediction as a collection of epistemically restricted classical predictions
William F. Braasch, William K. Wootters
Spekkens has introduced an epistemically restricted classical theory of discrete systems, based on discrete phase space. The theory manifests a number of quantum-like properties bu…
Transition probabilities and transition rates in discrete phase space
William F. Braasch, William K. Wootters
The evolution of the discrete Wigner function is formally similar to a probabilistic process, but the transition probabilities, like the discrete Wigner function itself, can be neg…
A classical interpretation of the Scrooge distribution
William K Wootters
The Scrooge distribution is a probability distribution over the set of pure states of a quantum system. Specifically, it is the distribution that, upon measurement, gives up the le…
The Boltzmann distribution and the quantum-classical correspondence
Sam Alterman, Jaeho Choi, Rebecca Durst +2
In this paper we explore the following question: can the probabilities constituting the quantum Boltzmann distribution, , be derived from a requirement t…