Which features of quantum physics are not fundamentally quantum but are due to indeterminism?
What is fundamentally quantum? We argue that most of the features, problems, and paradoxes – such as the measurement problem, the Wigner's friend paradox and its proposed solutions, single particle nonlocality, and no-cloning – allegedly attributed to quantum physics have a classical analogue if one is to interpret classical physics as fundamentally indeterministic. What really characterizes non-classical effects are incompatible physical quantities, which, in quantum quantum theory are associated to the fundamental constant <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mi class="MJX-variant">&#x210F;</mml:mi></mml:math>.
Authors
- N. Gisin
- Flavio Del Santo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7459-6674)
Institutions
- University of Geneva (CH)
- Constructor University (DE)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Quantum
- Published
- 2025-04-03
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-04-03-1686
- Citations
- 5
- Primary Topic
- Quantum Mechanics and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 6.23
Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Centres of Competence in Research SwissMAP
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung
- Austrian Science Fund