TITLE:
Einstein Dilemma and Two-State Vector Formalism
AUTHORS:
Kunihisa Morita
KEYWORDS:
Two-State Vector Formalism, Einstein Dilemma, Completeness, Locality
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Quantum Information Science,
Vol.5 No.2,
May
28,
2015
ABSTRACT: In the
famous EPR paper published in 1935, Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen suggested a
thought experiment, which later became known as the “EPR experiment”. Using the
EPR experiment, they posited that quantum mechanics was incomplete. Einstein,
however, was dissatisfied with the EPR paper and published a second work on the
EPR experiment, in which he discussed the dilemma of choosing whether quantum
mechanics was incomplete or nonlocal. Currently, most physicists choose the
nonlocality of quantum mechanics over Einstein’s choice of the incompleteness
of quantum mechanics. However, with an appropriate alternate hypothesis, both
of these choices can be rejected. Herein, I demonstrate an approach to overcome
the Einstein Dilemma by proposing a new interpretation invoked by a new
formalism of quantum mechanics known as two-state vector formalism.