The role of von Neumann and Lüders postulates in the EPR-Bohm-Bell considerations: Did EPR make a mistake?
Abstract
We show that the projection postulate plays a crucial role in the discussion on the so called "quantum nonlocality", in particular in the EPR-argument. We stress that the original von Neumann projection postulate was crucially modified by extending it to observables with degenerate spectra (the Lüders postulate) and we show that this modification is highly questionable from a physical point of view, and it is the real source of "quantum nonlocality". The use of the original von Neumann postulate eliminates this problem: instead of "action at the distance"-nonlocality, we obtain a classical measurement nonlocality. It seems that EPR did mistake in their 1935-paper: if one uses correctly von Neumann projection postulate, no ``elements of reality'' can be assigned to entangled systems. Our analysis of the EPR and projection postulate makes clearer Bohr's considerations in his reply to Einstein.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 2008
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.0801.0419
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0801.0419
- Bibcode:
- 2008arXiv0801.0419K
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- Coupling to recent preprints: arXiv:0804.2006 (detailed analysis of EPR-paper) and arXiv:0805.3258 (demonstration that quantum teleportation is an artifact of the misuse of von Neumann's postulate)