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Finite Precision Measurement Nullifies the Kochen-Specker Theorem
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Only finite precision measurements are experimentally reasonable, and they cannot distinguish a dense subset from its closure. We show that the rational vectors, which are dense in ${S}^{2}$, can be colored so that the contradiction with hidden variable theories provided by Kochen-Specker constructions does not obtain. Thus, in contrast to violation of the Bell inequalities, no quantum-overclassical advantage for information processing can be derived from the Kochen-Specker theorem alone.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Meyer, D. A.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 1999-11-08
- Volume
- 83
- Issue
- 19
- Pages
- 3751-3754
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
- OpenAlex
- W2127946666
- Cited by
- 171
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 5.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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