Contradictions or Curiosities? On Kent's Critique of the Masanes--Galley--Müller Derivation of the Quantum Measurement Postulates

2024/05/28 by Blake C. Stacey, Stacey, Blake C. · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.17733

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Abstract

Adrian Kent has recently criticized Masanes, Galley and Müller's work on postulates for quantum mechanics. MGM claim to find two contradictions in Kent's criticism. I argue that neither is a true contradiction unless some other premise is added.

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