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">&amp;#x210F;</mml:mi></mml:math>.

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Quantum
Published
2025-04-03
DOI
https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2025-04-03-1686
Citations
5
Primary Topic
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
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article
Field-Weighted Citation Impact
6.23

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Which features of quantum physics are not fundamentally quantum but are due to indeterminism?

N. Gisin, Flavio Del Santo
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Which features of quantum physics are not fundamentally quantum but are due to indeterminism?

N. Gisin, Flavio Del Santo
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Abstract

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">&amp;#x210F;</mml:mi></mml:math>.

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University of Geneva (CH), Constructor University (DE)
National Science Foundation, National Centres of Competence in Research SwissMAP, Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Austrian Science Fund
Openalex Percentile: Top 4%
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
6.23
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