A system’s wave function is uniquely determined by its underlying physical state

TY - JOUR

T1 - A system’s wave function is uniquely determined by its underlying physical state

AU - Colbeck, Roger Andrew

AU - Renner, Renato

N1 - © 2017, The Author(s).

PY - 2017/1/13

Y1 - 2017/1/13

N2 - Weaddress the question of whether the quantum-mechanical wave function of a system is uniquely determined by any complete descriptionof the systems physical state.Weshow that this is the case if the latter satisfies a notion of free choice. This notion requires that certain experimental parameters-those that according to quantum theory can be chosen independently of other variables -retain this property in the presence of. An implication of this result is that, among all possible descriptionsof a systems state compatible with free choice, the wave function Y is as objective as.

AB - Weaddress the question of whether the quantum-mechanical wave function of a system is uniquely determined by any complete descriptionof the systems physical state.Weshow that this is the case if the latter satisfies a notion of free choice. This notion requires that certain experimental parameters-those that according to quantum theory can be chosen independently of other variables -retain this property in the presence of. An implication of this result is that, among all possible descriptionsof a systems state compatible with free choice, the wave function Y is as objective as.

KW - foundations of quantum theory

KW - meaning of the wave function

KW - non-locality

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85011370901&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1088/1367-2630/aa515c

DO - 10.1088/1367-2630/aa515c

M3 - Article

SN - 1367-2630

VL - 19

JO - New Journal of Physics

JF - New Journal of Physics

IS - 1

M1 - 013016

ER -