A survey of the ESR model for an objective reinterpretation of quantum mechanics

DOI10.1007/S10773-015-2618-YzbMATH Open1329.81049arXiv1411.3064OpenAlexW3101780177MaRDI QIDQ904490FDOQ904490

Authors: Claudio Garola 

Publication date: 13 January 2016

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

Abstract: Most scholars concerned with the foundations of quantum mechanics (QM) think that contextuality and nonlocality (hence nonobjectivity of physical properties) are unavoidable features of QM which follow from the mathematical apparatus of QM. Moreover these features are usually considered as basic in quantum information processing. Nevertheless they raise still unsolved problems, as the objectification problem in the quantum theory of measurement. The extended semantic realism (ESR) model offers a possible way out from these difficulties by embedding the mathematical formalism of QM into a broader mathematical formalism and reinterpreting quantum probabilities as conditional on detection rather than absolute. The embedding allows to recover the formal apparatus of QM within the ESR model, and the reinterpretation of QM allows to construct a noncontextual hidden variables theory which justifies the assumptions introduced in the ESR model and proves its objectivity. According to the ESR model both linear and nonlinear time evolution occur, depending on the physical environment, as in QM. In addition, the ESR model, though objective, implies modified Bell's inequalities that do not conflict with QM, supplies different mathematical representations of proper and improper mixtures, provides a general framework in which the local interpretations of the GHZ experiment obtained by other authors are recovered and explained, and supports an interpretation of quantum logic which avoids the introduction of the problematic notion of quantum truth.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.3064

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlocalityquantum logiccontextualityESR modelGHZ experimentnonobjectivity``no-go theoremsobjectification problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13)

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