Quantum reality and measurement: a quantum logical approach

DOI10.1007/S10701-010-9462-YMaRDI QIDQ2430447zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Masanao Ozawa

Publication date 6 April 2011

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0911.1147

zbMATH Keywords

contextual interpretationjoint determinatenessquantum logicquantum measurementquantum set theorysimultaneous measurability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: The recently established universal uncertainty principle revealed that two nowhere commuting observables can be measured simultaneously in some state, whereas they have no joint probability distribution in any state. Thus, one measuring apparatus can simultaneously measure two observables that have no simultaneous reality. In order to reconcile this discrepancy, an approach based on quantum logic is proposed to establish the relation between quantum reality and measurement. We provide a language speaking of values of observables independent of measurement based on quantum logic and we construct in this language the state-dependent notions of joint determinateness, value identity, and simultaneous measurability. This naturally provides a contextual interpretation, in which we can safely claim such a statement that one measuring apparatus measures one observable in one context and simultaneously it measures another nowhere commuting observable in another incompatible context.

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