2016/12/21 by Christopher A. Fuchs, Blake C. Stacey · 1 voice · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
published as Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi": Course 197, Foundations of Quantum Theory (2019) · 39 pages, 8 figures (1 of a superhero); lectures based on arXiv:1003.5209, arXiv:1401.7254 and arXiv:1405.2390 plus new content; v3: bibliography glitch-fixes
arxiv published 2016/12/21 · arxiv created 2019/07/26 · arxiv updated 2019/10/28
This paper represents an elaboration of the lectures delivered by one of us (CAF) during "Course 197 -- Foundations of Quantum Physics" at the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" in Varenna, Italy, July 2016. Much of the material for it is drawn from arXiv:1003.5209, arXiv:1401.7254, and arXiv:1405.2390. However there are substantial additions of original material in Sections 4, 7, 8 and 9, along with clarifications and expansions of the older content throughout. Topics include the meaning of subjective probability; no-cloning, teleportation, and quantum tomography from the subjectivist Bayesian perspective; the message QBism receives from Bell inequality violations (namely, that nature is creative); the import of symmetric informationally complete (SIC) quantum measurements for the technical side of QBism; quantum cosmology QBist-style; and a potential meaning for the holographic principle within QBism.