Kochen-Specker -obstruction for position and momentum using a single degree of freedom

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(02)00657-6MaRDI QIDQ1601253zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Wayne C. Myrvold

Publication date 25 June 2002

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0201066

zbMATH Keywords

epsilon-product ruleHilbert spacequantum-mechanical predictions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: It is shown that, given a reasonable continuity assumption regarding possessed values, it is possible to construct a Kochen-Specker obstruction for any coordinate and its conjugate momentum, demonstrating that at most one of these two quantities can have a noncontextual value.

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