2011/08/10 by Shahid Nawaz, Ariel Caticha
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1063/1.3703627
Presented at MaxEnt 2011, the 31st International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering, (July 10--15, 2011, Waterloo, Canada)
arxiv created 2011/08/10 · arxiv updated 2015/05/29
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 assigned an instantaneous momentum. Nevertheless, four different notions of momentum can be usefully introduced. We derive relations among them and the corresponding uncertainty relations. The main conclusion is that momentum is a statistical concept: in ED the momenta are not properties of the particles; they are attributes of the probability distributions.