Phys. Rev. A 50, 2108–2119 (1994)How interference effects in mixtures determine the rules of quantum mechanicsReceived 7 January 1994; published in the issue dated September 1994 It is shown that the elementary indistinguishability properties of partially polarized mixtures are consistent only with the conventional Hilbert space model of quantum mechanics and a few exotic alternatives. This applies even in low dimensions where quantum logic and Gleason’s theorem give either weak or no constraints. The experimental methods for eliminating the exotic cases (which include quaternionic and octonionic variants of quantum mechanics) are described. © 1994 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.50.2108
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.50.2108
PACS:
03.65.Bz
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