Contextual Reinterpretation of Quantum Nonlocality
Contextual Reinterpretation of Quantum Nonlocality
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exc GSTThe quantum information revolution has had a huge impact not only on quantum technologies, including quantum computing and cryptography, but also on the foundations of quantum mechanics. This book presents the information viewpoint on the foundations of quantum physics by highlighting the role of complementarity and contextuality and coupling the ideas of the fathers of quantum mechanics, Bohr and Einstein, with the modern quantum information framework. The classical-quantum dilemma is resolved through an appeal to the Bild conception of scientific theories established in the 19th century by Hertz and Boltzmann. Bell inequalities are treated from the complementarity-contextuality viewpoint, supporting the attempts to discard nonlocality from quantum physics. Philosophical aspects of the topic are explored from a physicist's perspective, balancing accessibility with scientific rigour. This unique approach to quantum foundations will be of interest to graduates, Ph.D. students and researchers in fields ranging from quantum information to philosophy.
- Presents quantum contextuality from the general perspective by connecting it with Bohr's complementarity and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle
- Provides a detailed analysis of the foundational issues connected to quantum nonlocality, one of the strangest aspects of quantum theory
- Includes the author's personal recollections of conversations with world-leading experts on the foundations of quantum mechanics, and the run up to the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
Product details
December 2024Hardback
9781009313476
332 pages
250 × 175 × 24 mm
0.73kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction to quantum measurement theory
- Part I. One Quantum Foundations:
- 2. Two faces of quantum nonlocality and two interpretations of quantum state
- 3. Bohr's principle of complementarity and its contextual basis
- 4. Information interpretations of quantum mechanics
- 5. Quantum postulate as the seed of complementarity principle
- Part II. Bell Inequalities:
- 6. Bell inequality: incompatibility vs. nonlocality
- 7. Quantum versus classical entanglement: lessons from optics
- 8. Original Bell inequality and experiment
- 9. Maximal violation of original Bell inequality: two-qubit and -qutrit states
- Part III. Contextuality: Mathematical Modeling and Interpretation:
- 10. Contextual approach to probability and measurement
- 11. Contextual structuring of classical and quantum physics
- 12. Växjö interpretation
- Part IV. Contextual Entanglement in Quantum and Classical Physics:
- 13. Probabilistic entanglement of quantum observables
- 14. Brownian motion: classical and semiclassical entanglement
- Part V. Hertz, Boltzmann, Schrödinger, and De Broglie on Hidden Parameters:
- 15. Bild conception for scientific theory
- 16. Prequantum classical statistical field theory (PCSFT)
- Part VI. Further Developments:
- 17. QBism vs. Ozawa's intersubjectivity theorem
- 18. Quantum-like modeling in biology, cognition, and decision making
- 19. Noncommutative probability in classical systems from experimental contextuality
- References
- Index.
