Equivalence Relations in Quantum Theory: An Objective Account of Bases and Factorizations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14891v1
• Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:17:49 GMT
• Title: Equivalence Relations in Quantum Theory: An Objective Account of Bases and Factorizations
• Authors: Christian de Ronde, Raimundo Fernandez Moujan, Cesar Massri,
• Abstract summary: In orthodox Standard Quantum Mechanics (SQM) bases and factorizations are considered to define quantum states and entanglement in relativistic terms. We provide an invariant account of bases and factorizations which allows us to build a conceptual-operational bridge between formalism and quantum phenomena.
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• Abstract: In orthodox Standard Quantum Mechanics (SQM) bases and factorizations are considered to define quantum states and entanglement in relativistic terms. While the choice of a basis (interpreted as a measurement context) defines a state incompatible to that same state in a different basis, the choice of a factorization (interpreted as the separability of systems into sub-systems) determines wether the same state is entangled or non-entangled. Of course, this perspectival relativism with respect to reference frames and factorizations precludes not only the widespread reference to quantum particles but more generally the possibility of any rational objective account of a state of affairs in general. In turn, this impossibility ends up justifying the instrumentalist (anti-realist) approach that contemporary quantum physics has followed since the establishment of SQM during the 1930s. In contraposition, in this work, taking as a standpoint the logos categorical approach to QM -- basically, Heisenberg's matrix formulation without Dirac's projection postulate -- we provide an invariant account of bases and factorizations which allows us to to build a conceptual-operational bridge between the mathematical formalism and quantum phenomena. In this context we are able to address the set of equivalence relations which allows us to determine what is actually the same in different bases and factorizations.

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