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A system’s wave function is uniquely determined by its underlying physical state
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| Journal | New Journal of Physics |
|---|---|
| Date | Accepted/In press - 2 Dec 2016 |
| Date | Published (current) - 13 Jan 2017 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Original language | English |
Abstract
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.
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© 2017, The Author(s).
- foundations of quantum theory, meaning of the wave function, non-locality
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