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View SchemaFinite precision measurement nullifies the Kochen-Specker theorem
| Authors | David A. Meyer |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9905080 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9905080 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.3751 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev.Lett.83:3751-3754,1999 |
Abstract
Only finite precision measurements are experimentally reasonable, and they cannot distinguish a dense subset from its closure. We show that the rational vectors, which are dense in S^2, can be colored so that the contradiction with hidden variable theories provided by Kochen-Specker constructions does not obtain. Thus, in contrast to violation of the Bell inequalities, no quantum-over-classical advantage for information processing can be derived from the Kochen-Specker theorem alone.
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