Einstein, incompleteness, and the epistemic view of quantum states

DOI10.1007/s10701-009-9347-0zbMath1184.81006arXiv0706.2661OpenAlexW3100381525WikidataQ55953657 ScholiaQ55953657MaRDI QIDQ2268401

Nicholas Harrigan, Robert W. Spekkens

Publication date: 8 March 2010

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

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0706.2661

zbMATH Keywords

Einstein nonlocality realism quantum mechanics incompleteness the measurement problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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