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Open Quantum Systems Decoherence
The measure of PBR's reality
arXiv
Authors: Natalia Sánchez-Kuntz, Eduardo Nahmad-Achar
Year
2018
Paper ID
23794
Status
Preprint
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We review the Pusey-Barret-Rudolph (PBR) theorem\cite{PBR} and their setup, and arrive to the conclusion that the reality of a quantum state ψ is intrinsically attached to the measurement the system described by ψ has undergone. We show that a state that has not been measured can be regarded as pure information, while a state that has been measured has to be regarded as a physical property of a certain system, having a counterpart in reality. This demonstration implies that the statement of PBR's theorem changes in a meaningful way.
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