Einstein, incompleteness, and the epistemic view of quantum states

DOI10.1007/s10701-009-9347-0zbMath1184.81006arXiv0706.2661WikidataQ55953657 ScholiaQ55953657MaRDI QIDQ2268401

Robert W. Spekkens, Nicholas Harrigan

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

81P05: General and philosophical questions in quantum theory

81P40: Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations

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