Local model of a qubit in the interferometric setup

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/17/11/113043MaRDI QIDQ5144310zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Pawel Blasiak

Publication date 15 January 2021

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.07308

zbMATH Keywords

epistemic restrictionslocalityontological modelsquantum interferometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum gates (81P65) Quantum computation (81P68)

Abstract: We consider a typical realization of a qubit as a single particle in two-path interferometric circuits built from phase shifters, beam splitters and detectors. This framework is often taken as a standard example illustrating various paradoxes and quantum effects, including non-locality. In this paper we show that it is possible to simulate the behaviour of such circuits in a classical manner using stochastic gates and two kinds of particles, real ones and ghosts, which interact only locally. The model has built-in limited information gain and state disturbance in measurements which are blind to ghosts. We demonstrate that predictions of the model are operationally indistinguishable from the quantum case of a qubit, and allegedly 'non-local' effects arise only on the epistemic level of description by the agent whose knowledge is incomplete due to the restricted means of investigating the system.

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