We are pleased to announce the next Q+ hangout organized by Daniel Burgarth. The event will take place this Wednesday (30.11.2011, 14:00 GMT) and this time Matthew Pusey (Imperial College) will present his work "The quantum state cannot be interpreted statistically".
Date: Wednesday, 30th of November (this Wednesday!), 14:00-15:00 GMT
Speaker: Matthew Pusey from Imperial College.
Title: The quantum state cannot be interpreted statistically
Abstract: What is the quantum state? One view is that a pure state is a physical property of system, much like position and momentum in classical mechanics. Another is that even a pure state has only a statistical significance, akin to a probability distribution in statistical mechanics. We use a particular family of measurements to show that it is difficult to maintain the latter view without rejecting the idea that quantum systems have any physical properties at all.
