Entanglement as a method to reduce uncertainty
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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)
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.
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