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In Praise of Quantum Uncertainty
Quantum uncertainty has a tremendous explanatory power. Coherent superposition, quantum equations of motion, entanglement, nonlocal correlations, dynamical nonlocality, contextuality, discord, counterfactual protocols, weak measurements, quantization itself, and even preservation of causality can be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7516759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33286076 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e22030302 |
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author | Cohen, Eliahu Carmi, Avishy |
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description | Quantum uncertainty has a tremendous explanatory power. Coherent superposition, quantum equations of motion, entanglement, nonlocal correlations, dynamical nonlocality, contextuality, discord, counterfactual protocols, weak measurements, quantization itself, and even preservation of causality can be traced back to quantum uncertainty. We revisit and extend our previous works, as well as some other works of the community, in order to account for the above claims. Special emphasis is given to the connection between uncertainty and nonlocality, two notions which evolved quite independently and may seem distinct but, in fact, are tightly related. Indeterminism, or more precisely, locally consistent indeterminism, should be understood as the enabler of most quantum phenomena (and possibly all of them). |
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spelling | pubmed-75167592020-11-09 In Praise of Quantum Uncertainty Cohen, Eliahu Carmi, Avishy Entropy (Basel) Article Quantum uncertainty has a tremendous explanatory power. Coherent superposition, quantum equations of motion, entanglement, nonlocal correlations, dynamical nonlocality, contextuality, discord, counterfactual protocols, weak measurements, quantization itself, and even preservation of causality can be traced back to quantum uncertainty. We revisit and extend our previous works, as well as some other works of the community, in order to account for the above claims. Special emphasis is given to the connection between uncertainty and nonlocality, two notions which evolved quite independently and may seem distinct but, in fact, are tightly related. Indeterminism, or more precisely, locally consistent indeterminism, should be understood as the enabler of most quantum phenomena (and possibly all of them). MDPI 2020-03-06 /pmc/articles/PMC7516759/ /pubmed/33286076 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e22030302 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Cohen, Eliahu Carmi, Avishy In Praise of Quantum Uncertainty |
title | In Praise of Quantum Uncertainty |
title_full | In Praise of Quantum Uncertainty |
title_fullStr | In Praise of Quantum Uncertainty |
title_full_unstemmed | In Praise of Quantum Uncertainty |
title_short | In Praise of Quantum Uncertainty |
title_sort | in praise of quantum uncertainty |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7516759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33286076 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e22030302 |
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