Discretization of the Bloch sphere, fractal invariant sets and Bell's theorem

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2019.0350zbMATH Open1472.81032arXiv1804.01734OpenAlexW3017303575WikidataQ94601036 ScholiaQ94601036MaRDI QIDQ5160887FDOQ5160887

Authors: T. N. Palmer 

Publication date: 29 October 2021

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An arbitrarily dense discretisation of the Bloch sphere of complex Hilbert states is constructed, where points correspond to bit strings of fixed finite length. Number-theoretic properties of trigonometric functions (not part of the quantum-theoretic canon) are used to show that this constructive discretised representation incorporates many of the defining characteristics of quantum systems: completementarity, uncertainty relationships and (with a simple Cartesian product of discretised spheres) entanglement. Unlike Meyer's earlier discretisation of the Bloch Sphere, there are no orthonormal triples, hence the Kocken-Specker theorem is not nullified. A physical interpretation of points on the discretised Bloch sphere is given in terms of ensembles of trajectories on a dynamically invariant fractal set in state space, where states of physical reality correspond to points on the invariant set. This deterministic construction provides a new way to understand the violation of the Bell inequality without violating statistical independence or factorisation, where these conditions are defined solely from states on the invariant set. In this finite representation there is an upper limit to the number of qubits that can be entangled, a property with potential experimental consequences.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.01734

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zbMATH Keywords

complementarityuncertainty relationsBell theoremquantum physicsBloch spherefinite theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum state spaces, operational and probabilistic concepts (81P16)

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