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View SchemaNon-locality and gauge freedom in Deutsch and Hayden's formulation of quantum mechanics
| Authors | David Wallace, Chris Timpson |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0503149 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0503149 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s10701-007-9135-7 |
| Journal | Foundations of Physics 37(6), 2007, pp. 951-955 |
Abstract
Deutsch and Hayden have proposed an alternative formulation of quantum mechanics which is completely local. We argue that their proposal must be understood as having a form of `gauge freedom' according to which mathematically distinct states are physically equivalent. Once this gauge freedom is taken into account, their formulation is no longer local.
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