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A Galois connection approach to superposition and inaccessibility

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Working in a quantum logic framework and using the idea of Galois connections, we give a natural sufficient condition for superposition and inaccessibility to give the same closure map on sets of states.

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  1. Jesus College, University of Cambridge, CB5 8BL, Cambridge, England

    Jeremy Butterfield

  2. Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, CB2 1RF, Cambridge, England

    Joseph Melia

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Butterfield, J., Melia, J. A Galois connection approach to superposition and inaccessibility. Int J Theor Phys 32, 2305–2321 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00673001

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