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I was thinking about this. In every problem I have worked, we suppose a hamiltonian exists which can describe the system. There are obviously Hamiltonians which are not possible classically, such as in the 1-D ising model of paramagnetism, where the Hamiltonian contains terms of [tex] s_i. s_j [/tex] where both s_i and s_j are discrete variables with values [tex]\pm 1[/tex]. However the Hamiltonian is a classical concept. So does that mean that a quantum formalism cannot exist on its own without presupposing that an established classical theory exists?