Quantum Physics

   

Foundations of Quantum Computing I. Demystifying Quantum Paradoxes

Authors: Mark Syrkin

Speedy developments in Quantum Technologies and Computing with potentially far reaching scientific, engineering, financial applications, etc., make it imperative that fundamentals of Quantum Technologies are well explained and understood. Meanwhile, paradigms of so-called quantum non-locality, wave function (WF) "collapse", "Schrödinger cat" and some other historically popular misconceptions continue to stir controversies, feed mysteries around quantum phenomena and confuse prospective users.In this regard we argue that above misinterpretations stem essentially from classically minded and experimentally unverifiable perceptions, recasting and fitting the Principle of Superposition and key experimental details into classical terms and logic. Further, we revisit key components of general quantum measurement protocols — analyzers and detectors — and explain in this context paradoxes of WF collapse and Schrödinger cat. Then to demystify and clarify the concept of entanglement in multi-component systems (comprised of photons, electrons, atoms and even small macro-objects) and long-distance correlations, we remind that quantum measurements routinely reveal correlations mandated by conservation laws in each individual realization. Remarkably, this "correlation-by-initial conditions" (in addition to traditional "correlation-by-interactions") is by no means an exclusive quantum feature, but also has it analogies - in simplified form though - in Classical Mechanics (CM). However, an appearance and understanding of those correlations in Quantum Mechanics (QM) is governed by the wave-particle duality, forgetting of which leads to endless line of paradoxes. We keep reiterating that QM is not a dynamical theory in the same sense the CM is — it is a statistical theory, as established in 1926 by Born’s postulate. That is, while QM enforces conservations laws and ensuing correlations in each individual outcome, it does not indicate how exactly a specific outcome is selected. This selection remains fundamentally random and represents true randomness of QM, the latter being a statistical paradigm with a WF standing for a complex-valued amplitude of a distribution function. We note in conclusion that, although a quantum logic is admittedly a challenge for classical imagination, mechanistically complementing quantum foundations by classically minded expectations trivializes true quantum effects to primitive classical constructions and gives rise to a mysteriously omnipresent non-locality.

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