Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments and Recollections
- 1 Introduction to Quantum Measurement Theory
- Part I Quantum Foundations
- Part II Bell Inequalities
- Part III Contextuality: Mathematical Modeling and Interpretation
- Part IV Contextual Entanglement in Quantum and Classical Physics
- 13 Probabilistic Entanglement of Quantum Observables
- 14 Brownian Motion: Classical and Semiclassical Entanglement
- Part V Hertz, Boltzmann, Schrödinger, and de Broglie on Hidden Parameters
- Part VI Further Developments
- References
- Index
13 - Probabilistic Entanglement of Quantum Observables
from Part IV - Contextual Entanglement in Quantum and Classical Physics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 November 2024
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments and Recollections
- 1 Introduction to Quantum Measurement Theory
- Part I Quantum Foundations
- Part II Bell Inequalities
- Part III Contextuality: Mathematical Modeling and Interpretation
- Part IV Contextual Entanglement in Quantum and Classical Physics
- 13 Probabilistic Entanglement of Quantum Observables
- 14 Brownian Motion: Classical and Semiclassical Entanglement
- Part V Hertz, Boltzmann, Schrödinger, and de Broglie on Hidden Parameters
- Part VI Further Developments
- References
- Index
Summary
In this chapter contextual probabilistic entanglement is represented withinthe Hilbert space formalism. The notion of entanglement is clarified anddemystified through decoupling it from the tensor product structure andtreating it as a constraint posed by probabilistic dependence of quantum observablesA and B. In this framework, it is meaningless to speak aboutentanglement without pointing to the fixed observables A and B, so thisis AB-entanglement. Dependence of quantum observables is formalized asnon-coincidence of conditional probabilities. Starting with this probabilisticdefinition, we achieve the Hilbert space characterization of the AB-entangledstates as amplitude non-factorisable states. In the tensor productcase, AB-entanglement implies standard entanglement, but not vice versa.AB-entanglement for dichotomous observables is equivalent to their correlation. Finally, observables entanglement is compared with dependence of random variables in classical probability theory.
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- Contextual Reinterpretation of Quantum Nonlocality , pp. 149 - 164Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024