Connection with the quantum formalism

L. S. F. Olavo

In this continuation paper the theory is further extended to reveal the connection between its formal aparatus, dealing with microscopic quantities, and the formal aparatus of thermodynamics, related to macroscopic properties of large systems. We will also derive the Born-Sommerfeld quantization rules from the formalism of the infinitesimal Wigner-Moyal transformations and, as a consequence of this result, we will also make a connection between the later and the path integral approach of Feynman. Some insights of the relation between quantum mechanics and equilibrium states will be given as a natural development of the interpretation of the above results.

R. Guy Woolley

L. S. F. Olavo

We present in this continuation paper a new axiomatic derivation of the Schrödinger equation from three basic postulates. This new derivation sheds some light on the thermodynamic character of the quantum formalism. We also show the formal connection between this derivation and the one previously done by other means. Some considerations about metaestability are also drawn. We return to an example previously developed to show how the connection between both derivations works.

Alisson Tezzin

Recently there has been much interest in deriving the quantum formalism and the set of quantum correlations from simple axioms. In this paper, we provide a step-by-step derivation of the quantum formalism that tackles both these problems and helps us to understand why this formalism is as it is. We begin with a structureless system that only includes real-valued observables, states and a (not specified) state update, and we gradually identify theory-independent conditions that make the algebraic structure of quantum mechanics be assimilated by it. In the first part of the paper, we derive essentially all the "commutative part" of the quantum formalism, i.e., all definitions and theorems that do not involve algebraic operations between incompatible observables, such as projections, Specker's principle, and the spectral theorem; at the statistical level, the system is nondisturbing and satisfies the exclusivity principle at this stage. In the second part of the paper, we connect incompatible observables by taking transition probabilities between pure states into account. This connection is the final step needed to embed our system in a Hilbert space and to go from nondisturbing to quantum correlations.

Y. B. Band, Y. Avishai