Tuesday, June 19, 2012

1206.3686 (Dorit Aharonov et al.)

Is Quantum Mechanics Falsifiable? A computational perspective on the
foundations of Quantum Mechanics
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Dorit Aharonov, Umesh Vazirani
Quantum computation teaches us that quantum mechanics exhibits exponential complexity. We argue that the standard scientific paradigm of "predict and verify" cannot be applied to testing quantum mechanics in this limit of high complexity. We describe how QM can be tested in this regime by extending the usual scientific paradigm to include {\it interactive experiments}.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1206.3686

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