arXiv:1908.04432

Effective state as compatibility between agents

Cristhiano Duarte

Published Aug 12, 2019• 1 citation

Abstract

Shedding a new light in the coarse-graining scenario, in this contribution we came up with different necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a well-defined coarse-grained state. For doing so, we had to break apart with the usual quantum channels perspective and assume a more decision-theoretical posture. Broadly speaking, we reinterpret the coarse-graining problem in the language of quantum state pooling, and by make an extensive use of the conditional quantum states toolkit we have been able to derive more tangible conditions for the emergence of a compatible, effective coarse-grained state.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.04432

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