Haunted quantum contextuality versus value indefiniteness - a minority report

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2011-07-21

arxiv.org/abs/1107.4359v1

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 7160/201, ed. by Michael J. Dinneen, Bakhadyr Khoussainov und Andr\'e Nies (Springer

Physics

Quantum Physics

2 pages

Scientific paper

10.1007/978-3-642-27654-5_23

Physical entities are ultimately (re)constructed from elementary yes/no events, in particular clicks in detectors or measurement devices recording quanta. Recently, the interpretation of certain such clicks has given rise to unfounded claims which are neither necessary nor sufficient, although they are presented in that way. In particular, clicks can neither inductively support nor "(dis)prove" the Kochen-Specker theorem, which is a formal result that has a deductive proof by contradiction. More importantly, the alleged empirical evidence of quantum contextuality, which is "inferred" from violations of bounds of classical probabilities by quantum correlations, is based on highly nontrivial assumptions, in particular on physical omniscience.

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