Reconstructing Bohr's reply to EPR in algebraic quantum theory

DOI10.1007/S10701-011-9615-7MaRDI QIDQ424164zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Masanao Ozawa, Yuichiro Kitajima

Publication date 31 May 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1107.0737

zbMATH Keywords

BohrEPRalgebraic quantum theorymodal interpretation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Operator algebra methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81R15) Applications of selfadjoint operator algebras to physics (46L60)

Abstract: Halvorson and Clifton have given a mathematical reconstruction of Bohr's reply to Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR), and argued that this reply is dictated by the two requirements of classicality and objectivity for the description of experimental data, by proving consistency between their objectivity requirement and a contextualized version of the EPR reality criterion which had been introduced by Howard in his earlier analysis of Bohr's reply. In the present paper, we generalize the above consistency theorem, with a rather elementary proof, to a general formulation of EPR states applicable to both non-relativistic quantum mechanics and algebraic quantum field theory; and we clarify the elements of reality in EPR states in terms of Bohr's requirements of classicality and objectivity, in a general formulation of algebraic quantum theory.

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