Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, the limits to knowledge, and the foundations of quantum theory

海森堡的测不准原理、知识的局限性以及量子理论的基础

• 批准号: DE140100489
• 负责人: Dr Cyril Branciard
• 金额: $ 5.56万
• 依托单位: The University of Queensland
• 依托单位国家: 澳大利亚
• 项目类别: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 澳大利亚
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://dataportal.arc.gov.au/RGS/Web/Grants/DE140100489
• 关键词: Heisenberg; uncertainty; principle; limits; knowledge

This project will establish what the uncertainty principle can teach us about quantum foundations, and will address why quantum theory obeys such a principle and why Nature chose quantum theory amongst other possible theories. Specifically, this project will determine how the uncertainty principle restricts the information one can get on incompatible measurements, by deriving new complementarity relations. These will clarify what can or cannot be done in the context of quantum information. This project will determine how much of a theory can be reconstructed from such relations and what other fundamental axioms are required to fully derive quantum theory. This will shed light on the reasons why Nature prefers it to other theories.

该项目将确定不确定性原理可以告诉我们什么关于量子基础的知识，并将解决为什么量子理论遵循这样的原理以及为什么大自然在其他可能的理论中选择了量子理论。具体来说，该项目将通过推导新的互补关系来确定不确定性原理如何限制人们可以从不兼容的测量中获得的信息。这些将阐明在量子信息的背景下可以做什么或不能做什么。该项目将确定可以从这些关系中重建多少理论，以及完全推导量子理论还需要哪些其他基本公理。这将揭示为什么大自然更喜欢它而不是其他理论的原因。