Revisiting the admissibility of non-contextual hidden variable models in quantum mechanics

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2018.11.049zbMATH Open1472.81010arXiv1607.03498OpenAlexW2801939842WikidataQ128850414 ScholiaQ128850414MaRDI QIDQ822871FDOQ822871

Authors: N. E. Zubov 

Publication date: 24 September 2021

Published in: Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct a non-contextual hidden variable model consistent with all the kinematic predictions of quantum mechanics (QM). The famous Bell-KS theorem shows that non-contextual models which satisfy a further reasonable restriction are inconsistent with QM. In our construction, we define a weaker variant of this restriction which captures its essence while still allowing a non-contextual description of QM. This is in contrast to the contextual hidden variable toy models, such as the one by Bell, and brings out an interesting alternate way of looking at QM. The results also relate to the Bohmian model, where it is harder to pin down such features.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1607.03498

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum contextualityHV models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65) Differential geometric methods, including holonomy, Berry and Hannay phases, Aharonov-Bohm effect, etc. in quantum theory (81Q70)

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