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Mechler M, Man’ko MA, Man’ko VI, Adam P. Even and Odd Cat States of Two and Three Qubits in the Probability Representation of Quantum Mechanics. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 26:485. [PMID: 38920494 PMCID: PMC11202595 DOI: 10.3390/e26060485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/01/2024] [Revised: 05/27/2024] [Accepted: 05/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/27/2024]
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We derive the probability representation of even and odd cat states of two and three qubits. These states are even and odd superpositions of spin-1/2 eigenstates corresponding to two opposite directions along the z axis. The probability representation of even and odd cat states of an oscillating spin-1/2 particle is also discussed. The exact formulas for entangled probability distributions describing density matrices of all these states are obtained.
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- Matyas Mechler
- Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary;
- Institute of Physics, University of Pécs, Ifjúság Útja 6, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskii Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia; (M.A.M.); (V.I.M.)
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskii Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia; (M.A.M.); (V.I.M.)
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- Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, HUN-REN Wigner Research Centre for Physics, P.O. Box 49, H-1525 Budapest, Hungary;
- Institute of Physics, University of Pécs, Ifjúság Útja 6, H-7624 Pécs, Hungary
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Man’ko MA, Man’ko VI. Probability Distributions Describing Qubit-State Superpositions. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 25:1366. [PMID: 37895488 PMCID: PMC10606895 DOI: 10.3390/e25101366] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2023] [Revised: 09/18/2023] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 10/29/2023]
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We discuss qubit-state superpositions in the probability representation of quantum mechanics. We study probability distributions describing separable qubit states. We consider entangled states on the example of a system of two qubits (Bell states) using the corresponding superpositions of the wave functions associated with these states. We establish the connection with the properties and structure of entangled probability distributions.
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskii Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia;
- Department of Theoretical Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudnyi 141700, Russia
- Russian Quantum Center, Skolkovo, Moscow 143025, Russia
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Chernega VN, Man'ko OV. Dynamics of System States in the Probability Representation of Quantum Mechanics. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 25:e25050785. [PMID: 37238539 DOI: 10.3390/e25050785] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/02/2023] [Revised: 04/28/2023] [Accepted: 05/05/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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A short description of the notion of states of quantum systems in terms of conventional probability distribution function is presented. The notion and the structure of entangled probability distributions are clarified. The evolution of even and odd Schrödinger cat states of the inverted oscillator is obtained in the center-of-mass tomographic probability description of the two-mode oscillator. Evolution equations describing the time dependence of probability distributions identified with quantum system states are discussed. The connection with the Schrödinger equation and the von Neumann equation is clarified.
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- Vladimir N Chernega
- Institute of Managment and Digital Technologies, Department of Logistics and Transport System Managment, Russian University of Transport (MIIT), Obraztsova Street, 9/9, Moscow 127994, Russia
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia
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Belousov Y, Chernousov I, Man'ko V. Pseudo-Qutrit Formed by Two Interacting Identical Spins (s = 1/2) in a Variable External Magnetic Field. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 25:e25050716. [PMID: 37238471 DOI: 10.3390/e25050716] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2023] [Revised: 04/15/2023] [Accepted: 04/23/2023] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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An analytical solution is obtained for the problem of two interacting, identical but separated spin 1/2 particles in a time-dependent external magnetic field, in a general case. The solution involves isolating the pseudo-qutrit subsystem from a two-qubit system. It is shown that the quantum dynamics of a pseudo-qutrit system with a magnetic dipole-dipole interaction can be described clearly and accurately in an adiabatic representation, using a time-dependent basis set. The transition probabilities between the energy levels for an adiabatically varying magnetic field, which follows the Landau-Majorana-Stuckelberg-Zener (LMSZ) model within a short time interval, are illustrated in the appropriate graphs. It is shown that for close energy levels and entangled states, the transition probabilities are not small and strongly depend on the time. These results provide insight into the degree of entanglement of two spins (qubits) over time. Furthermore, the results are applicable to more complex systems with a time-dependent Hamiltonian.
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- Yury Belousov
- Terra Quantum AG, St. Gallerstrasse 16A, 9400 Rorschach, Switzerland
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- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskiy Per. 9, Moscow Distr., Dolgoprudny 141701, Russia
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskii Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia
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Man’ko MA, Man’ko VI. Quantum Oscillator at Temperature T and the Evolution of a Charged-Particle State in the Electric Field in the Probability Representation of Quantum Mechanics. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 25:213. [PMID: 36832585 PMCID: PMC9955318 DOI: 10.3390/e25020213] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/25/2022] [Revised: 01/19/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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A short review constructing the probability representation of quantum mechanics is given, and examples of the probability distributions describing the states of quantum oscillator at temperature T and the evolution of quantum states of a charged particle moving in the electric field of an electrical capacitor are considered. Explicit forms of time-dependent integrals of motion, linear in the position and momentum, are used to obtain varying probability distributions describing the evolving states of the charged particle. Entropies corresponding to the probability distributions of initial coherent states of the charged particle are discussed. The relation of the Feynman path integral to the probability representation of quantum mechanics is established.
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskii Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudnyi, Moscow 141700, Russia
- Russian Quantum Center, Skolkovo, Moscow 143025, Russia
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Man’ko OV, Man’ko VI. Inverted Oscillator Quantum States in the Probability Representation. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 25:217. [PMID: 36832583 PMCID: PMC9955110 DOI: 10.3390/e25020217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2022] [Revised: 01/15/2023] [Accepted: 01/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The quantizer-dequantizer formalism is used to construct the probability representation of quantum system states. Comparison with the probability representation of classical system states is discussed. Examples of probability distributions describing the system of parametric oscillators and inverted oscillators are presented.
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- Olga V. Man’ko
- Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninskii Prospect 53, Moscow 119991, Russia
- Russian Quantum Center, Skolkovo, Moscow 143025, Russia
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Tsallis and Other Generalised Entropy Forms Subject to Dirichlet Mixture Priors. Symmetry (Basel) 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/sym14061110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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Entropy indicates a measure of information contained in a complex system, and its estimation continues to receive ongoing focus in the case of multivariate data, particularly that on the unit simplex. Oftentimes the Dirichlet distribution is employed as choice of prior in a Bayesian framework conjugate to the popular multinomial likelihood with K distinct classes, where consideration of Shannon- and Tsallis entropy is of interest for insight detection within the data on the simplex. However, this prior choice only accounts for negatively correlated data, therefore this paper incorporates previously unconsidered mixtures of Dirichlet distributions as potential priors for the multinomial likelihood which addresses the drawback of negative correlation. The power sum functional, as the product moment of the mixture of Dirichlet distributions, is of direct interest in the multivariate case to conveniently access the Tsallis- and other generalized entropies that is incorporated within an estimation perspective of the posterior distribution using real economic data. A prior selection method is implemented to suggest a suitable prior for the consideration of the practitioner; empowering the user in future for consideration of suitable priors incorporating entropy within the estimation environment as well as having the option of certain mixture of Dirichlet distributions that may require positive correlation.
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de Gosson MA. Symplectic Radon Transform and the Metaplectic Representation. ENTROPY (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 24:761. [PMID: 35741482 PMCID: PMC9222323 DOI: 10.3390/e24060761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2022] [Revised: 05/13/2022] [Accepted: 05/14/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We study the symplectic Radon transform from the point of view of the metaplectic representation of the symplectic group and its action on the Lagrangian Grassmannian. We give rigorous proofs in the general setting of multi-dimensional quantum systems. We interpret the Radon transform of a quantum state as a generalized marginal distribution for its Wigner transform; the inverse Radon transform thus appears as a "demarginalization process" for the Wigner distribution.
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- Maurice A de Gosson
- Faculty of Mathematics (NuHAG), University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna, Austria
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Entangled Qubit States and Linear Entropy in the Probability Representation of Quantum Mechanics. ENTROPY 2022; 24:e24040527. [PMID: 35455190 PMCID: PMC9025286 DOI: 10.3390/e24040527] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2022] [Revised: 04/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/10/2022]
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The superposition states of two qubits including entangled Bell states are considered in the probability representation of quantum mechanics. The superposition principle formulated in terms of the nonlinear addition rule of the state density matrices is formulated as a nonlinear addition rule of the probability distributions describing the qubit states. The generalization of the entanglement properties to the case of superposition of two-mode oscillator states is discussed using the probability representation of quantum states.
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Estimating Non-Gaussianity of a Quantum State by Measuring Orthogonal Quadratures. ENTROPY 2022; 24:e24020289. [PMID: 35205583 PMCID: PMC8871266 DOI: 10.3390/e24020289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2022] [Revised: 02/10/2022] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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We derive the lower bounds for a non-Gaussianity measure based on quantum relative entropy (QRE). Our approach draws on the observation that the QRE-based non-Gaussianity measure of a single-mode quantum state is lower bounded by a function of the negentropies for quadrature distributions with maximum and minimum variances. We demonstrate that the lower bound can outperform the previously proposed bound by the negentropy of a quadrature distribution. Furthermore, we extend our method to establish lower bounds for the QRE-based non-Gaussianity measure of a multimode quantum state that can be measured by homodyne detection, with or without leveraging a Gaussian unitary operation. Finally, we explore how our lower bound finds application in non-Gaussian entanglement detection.
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Belousov Y, Man’ko VI, Migliore A, Sergi A, Messina A. Symmetry-Induced Emergence of a Pseudo-Qutrit in the Dipolar Coupling of Two Qubits. ENTROPY 2022; 24:e24020223. [PMID: 35205517 PMCID: PMC8871430 DOI: 10.3390/e24020223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2022] [Revised: 01/27/2022] [Accepted: 01/28/2022] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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We investigate a system of two identical and distinguishable spins 1/2, with a direct magnetic dipole–dipole interaction, in an external magnetic field. Constraining the hyperfine tensor to exhibit axial symmetry generates the notable symmetry properties of the corresponding Hamiltonian model. In fact, we show that the reduction of the anisotropy induces the invariance of the Hamiltonian in the 3×3 subspace of the Hilbert space of the two spins in which S^2 invariably assumes its highest eigenvalue of 2. By means of appropriate mapping, it is then possible to choose initial density matrices of the two-spin system that evolve in such a way as to exactly simulate the time evolution of a pseudo-qutrit, in the sense that the the actual two-spin system nests the subdynamics of a qutrit regardless of the strength of the magnetic field. The occurrence of this dynamic similitude is investigated using two types of representation for the initial density matrix of the two spins. We show that the qutrit state emerges when the initial polarizations and probability vectors of the two spins are equal to each other. Further restrictions on the components of the probability vectors are reported and discussed.
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- Yury Belousov
- Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutskii Per. 9, Dolgoprudny, 141700 Moscow, Russia;
- Terra Quantum AG, St. Gallerstrasse 16A, 9400 Rorschach, Switzerland
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- Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskii Prospect 53, 119991 Moscow, Russia;
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- Department of Chemical Sciences, University of Padova, Via Marzolo 1, 35131 Padova, Italy;
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche e Informatiche, Scienze Fisiche e Scienze della Terra, Università degli Studi di Messina, Viale F. Stagno d’Alcontres 31, 98166 Messina, Italy;
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sez. di Catania, 95123 Catania, Italy
- Institute of Systems Science, Durban University of Technology, P.O. Box 1334, Durban 4000, South Africa
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- Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica dell’Università di Palermo, Via Archirafi 34, 90123 Palermo, Italy
- Correspondence:
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No Preferred Reference Frame at the Foundation of Quantum Mechanics. ENTROPY 2021; 24:e24010012. [PMID: 35052038 PMCID: PMC8775038 DOI: 10.3390/e24010012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2021] [Revised: 12/10/2021] [Accepted: 12/18/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Quantum information theorists have created axiomatic reconstructions of quantum mechanics (QM) that are very successful at identifying precisely what distinguishes quantum probability theory from classical and more general probability theories in terms of information-theoretic principles. Herein, we show how one such principle, Information Invariance and Continuity, at the foundation of those axiomatic reconstructions, maps to “no preferred reference frame” (NPRF, aka “the relativity principle”) as it pertains to the invariant measurement of Planck’s constant h for Stern-Gerlach (SG) spin measurements. This is in exact analogy to the relativity principle as it pertains to the invariant measurement of the speed of light c at the foundation of special relativity (SR). Essentially, quantum information theorists have extended Einstein’s use of NPRF from the boost invariance of measurements of c to include the SO(3) invariance of measurements of h between different reference frames of mutually complementary spin measurements via the principle of Information Invariance and Continuity. Consequently, the “mystery” of the Bell states is understood to result from conservation per Information Invariance and Continuity between different reference frames of mutually complementary qubit measurements, and this maps to conservation per NPRF in spacetime. If one falsely conflates the relativity principle with the classical theory of SR, then it may seem impossible that the relativity principle resides at the foundation of non-relativisitic QM. In fact, there is nothing inherently classical or quantum about NPRF. Thus, the axiomatic reconstructions of QM have succeeded in producing a principle account of QM that reveals as much about Nature as the postulates of SR.
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Entropic Uncertainty for Two Coupled Dipole Spins Using Quantum Memory under the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interaction. ENTROPY 2021; 23:e23121595. [PMID: 34945901 PMCID: PMC8700510 DOI: 10.3390/e23121595] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2021] [Revised: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 11/15/2021] [Indexed: 12/03/2022]
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In the thermodynamic equilibrium of dipolar-coupled spin systems under the influence of a Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya (D–M) interaction along the z-axis, the current study explores the quantum-memory-assisted entropic uncertainty relation (QMA-EUR), entropy mixedness and the concurrence two-spin entanglement. Quantum entanglement is reduced at increased temperature values, but inflation uncertainty and mixedness are enhanced. The considered quantum effects are stabilized to their stationary values at high temperatures. The two-spin entanglement is entirely repressed if the D–M interaction is disregarded, and the entropic uncertainty and entropy mixedness reach their maximum values for equal coupling rates. Rather than the concurrence, the entropy mixedness can be a proper indicator of the nature of the entropic uncertainty. The effect of model parameters (D–M coupling and dipole–dipole spin) on the quantum dynamic effects in thermal environment temperature is explored. The results reveal that the model parameters cause significant variations in the predicted QMA-EUR.
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Avner S. Conceiving Particles as Undulating Granular Systems Allows Fundamentally Realist Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. ENTROPY 2021; 23:e23101338. [PMID: 34682062 PMCID: PMC8534518 DOI: 10.3390/e23101338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2021] [Revised: 10/05/2021] [Accepted: 10/06/2021] [Indexed: 12/04/2022]
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The strange behavior of subatomic particles is described by quantum theory, whose standard interpretation rejected some fundamental principles of classical physics such as causality, objectivity, locality, realism and determinism. Recently, a granular relativistic electrodynamical model of the electron could capture the measured values of its observables and predict its mass from the stability of its substructure. The model involves numerous subparticles that constitute some tight nucleus and loosely bound envelope allegedly forming real waves. The present study examines whether such a substructure and associated dynamics allow fundamentally realist interpretations of emblematic quantum phenomena, properties and principles, such as wave-particle duality, loss of objectivity, quantization, simultaneous multipath exploration, collapse of wavepacket, measurement problem, and entanglement. Drawing inspiration from non-linear dynamical systems, subparticles would involve realist hidden variables while high-level observables would not generally be determined, as particles would generally be in unstable states before measurements. Quantum mechanics would constitute a high-level probabilistic description emerging from an underlying causal, objective, local, albeit contextual and unpredictable reality. Altogether, by conceiving particles as granular systems composed of numerous extremely sensitive fluctuating subcorpuscles, this study proposes the possible existence of a local fundamentally realist interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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- Stéphane Avner
- CNRS, Univ. Rennes, IGDR-UMR 6290, F-35000 Rennes, France
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Plotnitsky A. Nature Has No Elementary Particles and Makes No Measurements or Predictions: Quantum Measurement and Quantum Theory, from Bohr to Bell and from Bell to Bohr. ENTROPY 2021; 23:e23091197. [PMID: 34573822 PMCID: PMC8470679 DOI: 10.3390/e23091197] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2021] [Revised: 08/12/2021] [Accepted: 09/06/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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This article reconsiders the concept of physical reality in quantum theory and the concept of quantum measurement, following Bohr, whose analysis of quantum measurement led him to his concept of a (quantum) "phenomenon," referring to "the observations obtained under the specified circumstances," in the interaction between quantum objects and measuring instruments. This situation makes the terms "observation" and "measurement," as conventionally understood, inapplicable. These terms are remnants of classical physics or still earlier history, from which classical physics inherited it. As defined here, a quantum measurement does not measure any preexisting property of the ultimate constitution of the reality responsible for quantum phenomena. An act of measurement establishes a quantum phenomenon by an interaction between the instrument and the quantum object or in the present view the ultimate constitution of the reality responsible for quantum phenomena and, at the time of measurement, also quantum objects. In the view advanced in this article, in contrast to that of Bohr, quantum objects, such as electrons or photons, are assumed to exist only at the time of measurement and not independently, a view that redefines the concept of quantum object as well. This redefinition becomes especially important in high-energy quantum regimes and quantum field theory and allows this article to define a new concept of quantum field. The article also considers, now following Bohr, the quantum measurement as the entanglement between quantum objects and measurement instruments. The argument of the article is grounded in the concept "reality without realism" (RWR), as underlying quantum measurement thus understood, and the view, the RWR view, of quantum theory defined by this concept. The RWR view places a stratum of physical reality thus designated, here the reality ultimately responsible for quantum phenomena, beyond representation or knowledge, or even conception, and defines the corresponding set of interpretations quantum mechanics or quantum field theory, such as the one assumed in this article, in which, again, not only quantum phenomena but also quantum objects are (idealizations) defined by measurement. As such, the article also offers a broadly conceived response to J. Bell's argument "against 'measurement'".
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- Arkady Plotnitsky
- Literature, Theory and Cultural Studies Program, Philosophy and Literature Program, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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