Schrödinger's Cat: Where Does The Entanglement Come From?
Abstract
Schrödinger's cat is one of the most striking paradoxes of quantum mechanics that reveals the counterintuitive aspects of the microscopic world. Here, I discuss the paradox in the framework of quantum information. Using a quantum networks formalism, I analyse the information flow between the atom and the cat. This reveals that the atom and the cat are connected only through a classical information channel: the detector clicks → the poison is released → the cat is killed. No amount of local operations and classical communication can entangle the atom and the cat, which are initially in a separable state. This casts a new light on the paradox.
Quanta 2017; 6: 57–60.
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PDFDOI: https://doi.org/10.12743/quanta.v6i1.64
ISSN: 1314-7374