Error in an argument regarding "improper" mixtures
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
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.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0405058,
title = {Error in an argument regarding "improper" mixtures},
author = {K. A. Kirkpatrick},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0405058},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
2 pp. Contains the substantive part of quant-ph/0109146, which it replaces