Symposium on the Foundations of Modern Physics 1990, August 13-17, 1990, Joensuu, Finland (Report Series Turku, FTL-R183, 1990), pp. 144-147.




EPISTEMIC VS. ONTIC FREQUENCY APPROACH TO QUANTUM MEASUREMENTS


Mladen Pavicic


Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, West Germany.

Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, GF, Kaciceva 26, POB-217, HR-10001 Zagreb, Croatia; mpavicic@faust.irb.hr; http://m3k.grad.hr/pavicic

Abstract. It is shown that measurements of the first order carried out on on discrete observables in the presence of a conservation law are repeatable and predictable only in a statistical sense.

PACS numbers: 03.65.Bz

Keywords: interpretation of quantum mechanics, quantum measurement statistics