Observables have no value: A no-go theorem for position and momentum observables

DOI10.1007/S10701-007-9148-2MaRDI QIDQ2458237zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. de la Torre

Publication date 31 October 2007

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0603277

zbMATH Keywords

Bell-Kochen-Speckercontextualityhidden variablesposition and momentum

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Commutation relations and statistics as related to quantum mechanics (general) (81S05)

Abstract: A very simple illustration of the Bell-Kochen-Specker contradiction is presented using continuous observables in infinite dimensional Hilbert space. It is shown that the assumption of the emph{existence} of putative values for position and momentum observables for one single particle is incompatible with quantum mechanics.

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