Can quantum mechanics be considered as statistical? an analysis of the PBR theorem

2012/03/12 by Drezet, Aurelien
#FOS: Physical sciences #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1203.2475

Abstract

The answer to this question is `yes it can!' as we will see in this manuscript. More, precisely after a discussion of M. F. Pusey, J. Barrett and T. Rudolph (PBR) result (arXiv:1111.3328) we will show that contrarily to the PBR claim the epistemic approach is in general not disproved by their `no-go' theorem.

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