Consistent sets yield contrary inferences in quantum theory

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Kent, A
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[1] Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB3 9EW, Silver Street
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.78.2874
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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In the consistent histories formulation of quantum theory, the probabilistic predictions and retrodictions made from observed data depend on the choice of a consistent set. We show that this freedom allows the formalism to retrodict contrary propositions which correspond to orthogonal commuting projections and which each have probability one. We also show that the formalism makes contrary probability one predictions when applied to Gell-Mann and Hartle's generalized time-neutral quantum mechanics.
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