Why should we interpret quantum mechanics?

DOI10.1023/B:FOOP.0000044100.95918.B2zbMATH Open1059.81013arXivquant-ph/0405126OpenAlexW2065905823MaRDI QIDQ1768892FDOQ1768892

Authors: Louis Marchildon 

Publication date: 15 March 2005

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The development of quantum information theory has renewed interest in the idea that the state vector does not represent the state of a quantum system, but rather the knowledge or information that we may have on the system. I argue that this epistemic view of states appears to solve foundational problems of quantum mechanics only at the price of being essentially incomplete.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0405126

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zbMATH Keywords

informationinterpretationquantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05)

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