On aerts' overlooked solution to the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox

DOI10.1142/9789813276895_0010zbMATH Open1414.81056arXiv1805.02869OpenAlexW2802441406MaRDI QIDQ5380076FDOQ5380076

Authors: Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi 

Publication date: 14 June 2019

Published in: Probing the Meaning of Quantum Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox was enunciated in 1935 and since then it has made a lot of ink flow. Being a subtle result, it has also been largely misunderstood. Indeed, if questioned about its solution, many physicists will still affirm today that the paradox has been solved by the Bell-test experimental results, which have shown that entangled states are real. However, this remains a wrong view, as the validity of the EPR ex-absurdum reasoning is independent from the Bell-test experiments, and the possible structural shortcomings it evidenced cannot be eliminated. These were correctly identified by the Belgian physicist Diederik Aerts, in the eighties of last century, and are about the inability of the quantum formalism to describe separate physical systems. The purpose of the present article is to bring Aerts' overlooked result to the attention again of the physics' community, explaining its content and implications.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.02869

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum entanglementEPR paradoxquantum structures

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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