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The quantum mechanical transition probability is symmetric. A probabilistically motivated and more general quantum logical definition of the transition probability was introduced in two preceding papers without postulating its symmetry, but in all the examples considered there it remains symmetric. Here we present a class of binary models where the transition probability is not symmetric, using the extreme points of the unit interval in an order unit space as quantum logic. We show that their state spaces are strictly convex smooth compact convex sets and that each such set K gives rise to a quantum logic of this class with the state space K. The transition probabilities are symmetric iff K is the unit ball in a Hilbert space. In this case, the quantum logic becomes identical with the projection lattice in a spin factor which is a special type of formally real Jordan algebra.
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Niestegge, G. Non-symmetric Transition Probability in Generalized Qubit Models. Found Phys 54, 9 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-023-00744-4
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