Bacciagaluppi, Guido (2013) Insolubility from No-Signalling. [Preprint]

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This paper improves on the result in my http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/9121/, showing that within the framework of the unitary Schroedinger equation it is impossible to reproduce the phenomenological description of quantum mechanical measurements (in particular the collapse of the state of the measured system) by assuming a suitable mixed initial state of the apparatus. The result follows directly from the no-signalling theorem applied to the entangled state of measured system and ancilla. As opposed to other 'insolubility theorems' for the measurement problem of quantum mechanics, it focuses on the impossibility of reproducing the phenomenological collapse of the state of the measured system.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Bacciagaluppi, Guido g.bacciagaluppi@abdn.ac.uk
Keywords:	insolubility theorem , measurement problem, no-signalling theorem, quantum mechanics
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Guido Bacciagaluppi
Date Deposited:	30 May 2013 18:20
Last Modified:	13 Sep 2015 15:56
Item ID:	9802
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	9 January 2013
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/9802

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