Quantum violations of simultaneous reality
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17300v1
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 16:02:29 GMT
- Title: Quantum violations of simultaneous reality
- Authors: R. A. Caetano, R. M. Angelo,
- Abstract summary: We show that quantum mechanics actually prevents non-commuting observables to be simultaneous elements of reality in general.
Our findings suggest new manners of intepreting quantum phenomena.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Abstract: With basis on (i) the physical principle of local causality and (ii) a certain notion of elements of reality, Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) put forward an argument showing that physical instances may exist in which two non-commuting observables can be simultaneous elements of the physical reality. Here, by introducing an operational criterion of simultaneous reality, we show the very opposite, that is, quantum mechanics actually prevents non-commuting observables to be simultaneous elements of reality in general. In addition, we introduce a measure to quantify the extent to which the criterion is violated and explore the implications of such a measure in connection with incompatibility and correlations. Our findings suggest new manners of intepreting quantum phenomena.
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