Schrödinger's cat: where does the entanglement come from?

DOI10.12743/QUANTA.V6I1.64MaRDI QIDQ5134952zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Radu Ionicioiu

Publication date 18 November 2020

Published in Quanta (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07986

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Entanglement measures, concurrencies, separability criteria (81P42)

Abstract: Schr"odinger's cat is one of the most striking paradoxes of quantum mechanics that reveals the counterintuitive aspects of the microscopic world. Here, I discuss the paradox in the framework of quantum information. Using a quantum networks formalism, I analyse the information flow between the atom and the cat. This reveals that the atom and the cat are connected only through a classical information channel: the detector clicks $ightarrow$ the poison is released $ightarrow$ the cat is killed. No amount of local operations and classical communication can entangle the atom and the cat, which are initially in a separable state. This casts a new light on the paradox.

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