Epistemic Uncertainty from an Averaged Hamilton–Jacobi Formalism

Abstract

In recent years, the non-relativistic quantum dynamics derived from three assumptions; (i) probability current conservation, (ii) average energy conservation, and (iii) an epistemic momentum uncertainty (Budiyono and Rohrlich in Nat Commun 8:1306, 2017). Here we show that, these assumptions can be derived from a natural extension of classical statistical mechanics.