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Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics
We consider a semantics based on the peculiar holistic features of the quantum formalism. Any formula of the language gives rise to a quantum circuit that transforms the density operator associated to the formula into the density operator associated to the atomic subformulas in a reversible way. The...
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description | We consider a semantics based on the peculiar holistic features of the quantum formalism. Any formula of the language gives rise to a quantum circuit that transforms the density operator associated to the formula into the density operator associated to the atomic subformulas in a reversible way. The procedure goes from the whole to the parts against the compositionality-principle and gives rise to a semantic characterization for a new form of quantum logic that has been called “Łukasiewicz quantum computational logic”. It is interesting to compare the logic based on qubit-semantics with that on qudit-semantics. Having in mind the relationships between classical logic and Łukasiewicz-many valued logics, one could expect that the former is stronger than the fragment of the latter. However, this is not the case. From an intuitive point of view, this can be explained by recalling that the former is a very weak form of logic. Many important logical arguments, which are valid either in Birkhoff and von Neumann’s quantum logic or in classical logic, are generally violated. |
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spelling | pubmed-82303632021-06-26 Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics Leporini, Roberto Entropy (Basel) Article We consider a semantics based on the peculiar holistic features of the quantum formalism. Any formula of the language gives rise to a quantum circuit that transforms the density operator associated to the formula into the density operator associated to the atomic subformulas in a reversible way. The procedure goes from the whole to the parts against the compositionality-principle and gives rise to a semantic characterization for a new form of quantum logic that has been called “Łukasiewicz quantum computational logic”. It is interesting to compare the logic based on qubit-semantics with that on qudit-semantics. Having in mind the relationships between classical logic and Łukasiewicz-many valued logics, one could expect that the former is stronger than the fragment of the latter. However, this is not the case. From an intuitive point of view, this can be explained by recalling that the former is a very weak form of logic. Many important logical arguments, which are valid either in Birkhoff and von Neumann’s quantum logic or in classical logic, are generally violated. MDPI 2021-06-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8230363/ /pubmed/34200729 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23060735 Text en © 2021 by the author. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/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 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Leporini, Roberto Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics |
title | Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics |
title_full | Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics |
title_fullStr | Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics |
title_full_unstemmed | Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics |
title_short | Quantum Uncertainties and Holism Seem to Render Irrelevant Qudit-Semantics |
title_sort | quantum uncertainties and holism seem to render irrelevant qudit-semantics |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8230363/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34200729 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e23060735 |
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