Why Should we Interpret Quantum Mechanics?
arXiv:quant-ph/0405126 · doi:10.1023/B:FOOP.0000044100.95918.b2
Abstract
The development of quantum information theory has renewed interest in the idea that the state vector does not represent the state of a quantum system, but rather the knowledge or information that we may have on the system. I argue that this epistemic view of states appears to solve foundational problems of quantum mechanics only at the price of being essentially incomplete.
Clarifications in Sec. 2. To appear in Found. Phys
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