Wednesday, February 27, 2013

1302.6278 (GianCarlo Ghirardi et al.)

On the completeness of quantum mechanics and the interpretation of the
state vector
   [PDF]

GianCarlo Ghirardi, Raffaele Romano
Recently, it has been argued that quantum mechanics is complete, and that quantum states vectors are necessarily in one-to-one correspondence with the elements of reality, under the assumptions that quantum theory is correct and that measurement settings can be freely chosen. In this work, we argue that the adopted form of the free choice assumption is stronger than needed. We unveil hidden assumptions underlying these results, which limit their range of validity. We support our argument by a model for the bipartite two-level system, reproducing quantum mechanics, in which the free will assumption is respected, and different quantum states can be connected to the same state of reality.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6278

No comments:

Post a Comment