Entanglement as a method to reduce uncertainty

DOI10.1007/S10773-023-05404-XzbMATH Open1530.81025arXiv2302.05898OpenAlexW4383265176MaRDI QIDQ6169979FDOQ6169979

Authors: Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles, Lester Beltran, Suzette Geriente, Sandro Sozzo 

Publication date: 15 August 2023

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In physics, entanglement 'reduces' the entropy of an entity, because the (von Neumann) entropy of, e.g., a composite bipartite entity in a pure entangled state is systematically lower than the entropy of the component sub-entities. We show here that this 'genuinely non-classical reduction of entropy as a result of composition' also holds whenever two concepts combine in human cognition and, more generally, it is valid in human culture. We exploit these results and make a 'new hypothesis' on the nature of entanglement, namely, the production of entanglement in the preparation of a composite entity can be seen as a 'dynamical process of collaboration between its sub-entities to reduce uncertainty', because the composite entity is in a pure state while its sub-entities are in a non-pure, or density, state, as a result of the preparation. We identify within the nature of this entanglement a mechanism of contextual updating and illustrate the mechanism in the example we analyze. Our hypothesis naturally explains the 'non-classical nature' of some quantum logical connectives, as due to Bell-type correlations.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05898

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zbMATH Keywords

entropyuncertaintyentanglementBell inequalitiesquantum logichuman cognition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Logical foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum logic (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P10) Quantum entropies (81P17) Uncertainty relations, also entropic (81S07)

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