Quantum complementarity and logical indeterminacy
- Author(s)
- Caslav Brukner
- Abstract
Whenever a mathematical proposition to be proved requires more information than it is contained in an axiomatic system, it can neither be proved nor disproved, i.e. it is undecidable, or logically undetermined, within this axiomatic system. I will show that certain mathematical propositions on a d-valent function of a binary argument can be encoded in d-dimensional quantum states of mutually unbiased basis (MUB) sets, and truth values of the propositions can be tested in MUB measurements. I will then show that a proposition is undecidable within the system of axioms encoded in the state, if and only if the measurement associated with the proposition gives completely random outcomes.
- Organisation(s)
- Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information
- Journal
- Natural Computing
- Volume
- 8
- Pages
- 449-453
- No. of pages
- 5
- ISSN
- 1567-7818
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-009-9118-z
- Publication date
- 2009
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 1030 Physics, Astronomy
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/quantum-complementarity-and-logical-indeterminacy(207d4496-0e86-43ff-aaa9-0b759137c123).html