Product states, entanglement, and measurement
Abstract
A product state of a composite quantum system AB is customarily interpreted physically to mean subsystem A has property A1 and subsystem B has property B1. But this interpretation contradicts both the theory and observed outcomes of non-local interferometry experiments on the momentum-entangled state of two photons. These experiments demonstrate that product states must be interpreted physically as correlations, i.e. the product state means A has property A1 if and only if B has property B1. This clarification resolves the problem of definite outcomes and, with it, the measurement problem.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- March 2019
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1903.00526
- Bibcode:
- 2019arXiv190300526H
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- An error occurs in Section 5. Post-measurement results in the RTO experiment are improperlystated to directly apply to the entangled measurement state itself. This puts the conclusions stated in the abstract into question