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Error in an argument regarding "improper" mixtures

Authors	K. A. Kirkpatrick
Categories	quant-ph
ArXiv ID	quant-ph/0405058
URL	https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0405058

Abstract

An argument, perhaps originating with Feyerabend a half century ago, and repeated many times since, purporting to establish that an "ignorance interpretation" of a bipartite pure entangled state leads to logical inconsistency, is incorrect: the argument fails to account for the effects of indistinguishability.

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