Relational interpretation of the wave function and a possible way around Bell's theorem Export

@misc{citeulike:1290946, abstract = {The famous ``spooky action at a distance'' in the EPR-szenario is shown to be a local interaction, once entanglement is interpreted as a kind of ``nearest neighbor'' relation among quantum systems. Furthermore, the wave function itself is interpreted as encoding the ``nearest neighbor'' relations between a quantum system and spatial points. This interpretation becomes natural, if we view space and distance in terms of relations among spatial points. Therefore, ``position'' becomes a purely relational concept. This relational picture leads to a new perspective onto the quantum mechanical formalism, where many of the ``weird'' aspects, like the particle-wave duality, the non-locality of entanglement, or the ``mystery'' of the double-slit experiment, disappear. Furthermore, this picture cirumvents the restrictions set by Bell's inequalities, i.e., a possible (realistic) hidden variable theory based on these concepts can be local and at the same time reproduce the results of quantum mechanics.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Filk, Thomas}, citeulike-article-id = {1290946}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602060}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0602060}, day = {5}, eprint = {quant-ph/0602060}, keywords = {qm, r-qm, relational}, month = {Feb}, posted-at = {2007-05-12 00:57:31}, priority = {2}, title = {Relational interpretation of the wave function and a possible way around Bell's theorem}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602060}, year = {2006} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:1290946 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1290946 N2 - The famous ``spooky action at a distance'' in the EPR-szenario is shown to be a local interaction, once entanglement is interpreted as a kind of ``nearest neighbor'' relation among quantum systems. Furthermore, the wave function itself is interpreted as encoding the ``nearest neighbor'' relations between a quantum system and spatial points. This interpretation becomes natural, if we view space and distance in terms of relations among spatial points. Therefore, ``position'' becomes a purely relational concept. This relational picture leads to a new perspective onto the quantum mechanical formalism, where many of the ``weird'' aspects, like the particle-wave duality, the non-locality of entanglement, or the ``mystery'' of the double-slit experiment, disappear. Furthermore, this picture cirumvents the restrictions set by Bell's inequalities, i.e., a possible (realistic) hidden variable theory based on these concepts can be local and at the same time reproduce the results of quantum mechanics. TI - Relational interpretation of the wave function and a possible way around Bell's theorem KW - qm KW - r-qm KW - relational AU - Filk, Thomas PY - 2006/Feb/05/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0602060 ER -