Interpreting Quantum Parallelism by Sequents

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 49 - Trang 3022-3029 - 2009
Giulia Battilotti1
1Department of Philosophy, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Tóm tắt

We introduce an interpretation of quantum superposition in predicative sequent calculus, in the framework of basic logic. Then we introduce a new predicative connective for the entanglement. Our aim is to represent quantum parallelism in terms of logical proofs.

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