A locally deterministic, detector-based model of quantum measurement

DOI10.1007/S10701-014-9829-6MaRDI QIDQ474893zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Brian R. La Cour

Publication date 25 November 2014

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12801

zbMATH Keywords

entanglementcontextualityhidden variablesquantum nonlocality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: This paper describes a simple, causally deterministic model of quantum measurement based on an amplitude threshold detection scheme. Surprisingly, it is found to reproduce many phenomena normally thought to be uniquely quantum in nature. To model an $N$-dimensional pure state, the model uses $N$ complex random variables given by a scaled version of the wave vector with additive complex noise. Measurements are defined by threshold crossings of the individual components, conditioned on single-component threshold crossings. The resulting detection probabilities match or approximate those predicted by quantum mechanics according to the Born rule. Nevertheless, quantum phenomena such as entanglement, contextuality, and violations of Bell's inequality under local measurements are all shown to be exhibited by the model, thereby demonstrating that such phenomena are not without classical analogs.

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