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The general properties of signals permit a nonaxiomatic reconstruction of the quantum “probability” formalism independent of the standard Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics. Performance standards are specified for candidate clock, signaller, and reflector devices, and it is shown that the resulting formalism forces identification of a “probability”- or “intensity”-like structure as the absolute square of an amplitude, the relative phases of amplitudes appearing explicitly in the “probability” composition law. Inequalities are produced which on one interpretation reduce to the Heisenberg relations, but it is pointed out that this reconstruction disqualifies position as an observable property of a signal.
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Kannenberg, L. Quantum formalism via signal analysis. Found Phys 19, 367–383 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00731831
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