Is a System’s Wave Function in One-to-One Correspondence with Its Elements of Reality?
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- none
- Consensus categories
- none
- Domain
- Candidate signal: noneConsensus signal: none
- Study design
- Candidate signal: Theoretical or conceptualConsensus signal: none
- Genre
- Candidate signal: EmpiricalConsensus signal: Empirical
- Teacher disagreement score
- 0.792
- Threshold uncertainty score
- 0.411
- Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated·codex-gemma-dda1882f352a
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| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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- Teacher spread
- 0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
- Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline· verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it
Abstract
Although quantum mechanics is one of our most successful physical theories, there has been a long-standing debate about the interpretation of the wave function--the central object of the theory. Two prominent views are that (i) it corresponds to an element of reality, i.e., an objective attribute that exists before measurement, and (ii) it is a subjective state of knowledge about some underlying reality. A recent result [M. F. Pusey, J. Barrett, and T. Rudolph, arXiv:1111.3328] has placed the subjective interpretation into doubt, showing that it would contradict certain physically plausible assumptions, in particular, that multiple systems can be prepared such that their elements of reality are uncorrelated. Here we show, based only on the assumption that measurement settings can be chosen freely, that a system's wave function is in one-to-one correspondence with its elements of reality. This also eliminates the possibility that it can be interpreted subjectively.
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The record
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Topic
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Field
- Physics and Astronomy
- Canadian institutions
- Perimeter Institute
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche
- Keywords
- Interpretation (philosophy)Object (grammar)Element (criminal law)Wave functionFunction (biology)Theoretical physicsEpistemologyPhysicsMeasurement problemComputer sciencePhilosophyQuantum mechanicsQuantumArtificial intelligenceLawLinguistics
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