Relational quantum mechanics

DOI10.1007/BF02302261zbMath0885.94012arXivquant-ph/9609002WikidataQ55871863 ScholiaQ55871863MaRDI QIDQ1923982

Carlo Rovelli

Publication date: 22 April 1998

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: I suggest that the common unease with taking quantum mechanics as a fundamental description of nature (the "measurement problem") could derive from the use of an incorrect notion, as the unease with the Lorentz transformations before Einstein derived from the notion of observer-independent time. I suggest that this incorrect notion is the notion of observer-independent state of a system (or observer-independent values of physical quantities). I reformulate the problem of the "interpretation of quantum mechanics" as the problem of deriving the formalism from a few simple physical postulates. I consider a reformulation of quantum mechanics in terms of information theory. All systems are assumed to be equivalent, there is no observer-observed distinction, and the theory describes only the information that systems have about each other; nevertheless, the theory is complete.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609002

zbMATH Keywords

informationquantum mechanicsmeasurementabservation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Information theory (general) (94A15)

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