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

Quantum Physics 2025-04-09 v3 History and Philosophy of Physics

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 \hbar.

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@article{arxiv.2409.10601,
  title  = {Which features of quantum physics are not fundamentally quantum but are due to indeterminism?},
  author = {Flavio Del Santo and Nicolas Gisin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.10601},
  year   = {2025}
}

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12 pages, 4 figures