Classical probability often deals with mutually exclusive events such as a coin landing heads or tails or a die landing on a certain number. There is no information as to which event occurs and so one assigns equal probabilities to each possible outcome i.e. a coin is associated with the probability ½ and a die with ⅙. Mutually exclusive events also appear in the quantum world. For example, a single photon moving in one dimension along the x axis in a medium with index of refraction n1=1 may strike an interface along the y axis with index n2>n1. The single photon either reflects or refracts. If one knew nothing about one probability or another, one might assume the probability to reflect to be ½ and that to refract ½, but there is no...