An introduction to QBism with an application to the locality of quantum mechanics

By Christopher A. Fuchs, N. David Mermin, Ruediger Schack. 2013

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We give an introduction to the QBist interpretation of quantum mechanics, which removes the paradoxes, conundra, and pseudo-problems that have plagued quantum foundations for the past nine decades. As an example, we show in detail how this interpretation eliminates “quantum nonlocality.”

Subfields: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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Quantum decoherence (2019, background): “For example, in the interpretation known as QBism [65], all quantum states are purely subjective entities that encode an observer’s probabilistic expectations associated with his future measurement interactions.”
Is the Quantum State Real? An Extended Review of -ontology Theorems (2014, background): “The most fine grained description of the toy bit is always its ontic state, but we might not know exactly which of the ontic states is occupied.”
Do We Really Understand Quantum Mechanics? (2012, background): “Similar to Bohr, QBism considers that “The primitive concept of experience is fundamental to an understanding of science”; nevertheless, “Unlike Copenhagen, QBism takes the ‘subjective’ or ‘judgmental’ or ‘personalist’ view of probabilities” [534].”
On Participatory Realism (2016, background): “David Mermin suggested that the B in QBism should more accurately stand for “Bruno,” as in Bruno de Finetti, so that we would at least get the variety of (subjective) Bayesianism right.”
Bell Nonlocality (2013, background): “For further reading, one can start with some essays of very different, often opposite flavor published with the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Bell’s theorem (Fuchs et al., 2014; Maudlin, 2014; Werner, 2014; Wiseman, 2014; Żukowski and Brukner, 2014).”