The Reality and Measurement of the Wavefunction

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12 August 1993

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-th/9308061

Abstract

Using a simple version of the model for the quantum measurement of a two level system, the contention of Aharonov, Anandan, and Vaidman that one must in certain circumstances give the wavefunction an ontological as well as an epistemological significance is examined. I decide that their argument that the wave function of a system can be measured on a single system fails to establish the key point and that what they demonstrate is the ontological significance of certain operators in the theory, with the wave function playing its usual epistemological role.

Keywords

SYSTEM CAN BE MEASURED
QUANTUM MEASUREMENT
WAVEFUNCTION USING
EPISTEMOLOGICAL
SIMPLE VERSION
WAVE FUNCTION
LEVEL SYSTEM
ONTOLOGICAL

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Version 1, 1993-08-12, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review A, 50 (1), 882.

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