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Quantum Foundations

The Measurement Problem Is the "Measurement" Problem

arXiv
Authors: Arne Hansen, Stefan Wolf

Year

2018

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24116

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Preprint

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The term "measurement" in quantum theory (as well as in other physical theories) is ambiguous: It is used to describe both an experience - e.g., an observation in an experiment - and an interaction with the system under scrutiny. If doing physics is regarded as a creative activity to develop a meaningful description of the world, then one has to carefully discriminate between the two notions: An observer's account of experience - consitutive to meaning - is hardly expressed exhaustively by the formal framework of an interaction within one particular theory. We develop a corresponding perspective onto central terms in quantum mechanics in general, and onto the measurement problem in particular.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1810.04573 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04573 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04573

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