On entanglement as a relation

European Journal for Philosophy of Science 12 (1):1-29 (2022)
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Abstract

This paper aims to characterise properly entanglement as an external relation obtaining between multiple quantum degrees of freedom. In particular, we argue that the entanglement relation is a unique relation fully characterised by mutual information, i.e. a quantity standardly used as a measure of entanglement. This analysis leads us to propose a new metaphysical account of entanglement, which we call Relational Entanglement Tesseract. Such an account characterises entanglement for both bipartite and multipartite cases, and, at the same time, it satisfies what we argue are three important desiderata of any metaphysical account of entanglement.

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Enrico Cinti
University of Geneva
Alberto Corti
Università degli Studi di Urbino
Marco Sanchioni
Università degli Studi di Urbino

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Metaphysics of Quantum Gravity.Baptiste Le Bihan, and & Annica Vieser - 2024 - Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

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