Finite Precision Measurement Nullifies the Kochen-Specker Theorem
- 8 November 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 83 (19) , 3751-3754
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.3751
Abstract
Only finite precision measurements are experimentally reasonable, and they cannot distinguish a dense subset from its closure. We show that the rational vectors, which are dense in , can be colored so that the contradiction with hidden variable theories provided by Kochen-Specker constructions does not obtain. Thus, in contrast to violation of the Bell inequalities, no quantum-overclassical advantage for information processing can be derived from the Kochen-Specker theorem alone.
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