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| Authors | K. A. Kirkpatrick |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| 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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