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Is my interpretation of the underlying idea behind this 2022 Nobel Prize story “How physicists proved the universe isn’t real” more or less accurate?
I’m not very good at math but I frequently watch PBS Spacetime on YouTube to try to satisfy my curiosity about physics despite that.
In a recent video by Dr Ben Miles titled “How Physicists Proved the ...
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Postulate of wave function collapse and entanglement
Can we say that a measurement on a system of $k$ entangled particles is the cause of the collapse of the wave function into $k$th states simultaneously?
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Does an entangled pair remain entangled after the first measurement?
Consider an entangled pair described by the wavefunction
$$\lvert1,0\rangle = \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}(\lvert\uparrow_1\downarrow_2\rangle-\lvert\downarrow_1\uparrow_2\rangle)$$ in in the $S_z$-basis. If ...
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Identifying Collapse in Wave-function [duplicate]
Is there a machine or instrument which will notify us instantly when the wave-function has collapsed if we have access to only one of the entangled particles? Note that the wave function collapse will ...
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