Quantum Counterfactuals: Interaction-Free Measurements and Classical Logic’s Constraints
The aim of this paper is to carry out a critical analysis of the uses of the material conditionals employed to represent the counterfactual detections taking place inside Elitzur-Vaidman quantum bomb detectors in so-called quantum interaction free measurements (IFMs). We provide an exhaustive philos...
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| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Data de publicação: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Camilo José Cela (UCJC) |
| Repositório: | Depósito Digital e-UCJC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.ucjc.edu:20.500.12020/1805 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://www.pdcnet.org//collection/fshow?id=logos-episteme_2025_0016_0004_0455_0477&pdfname=logos-episteme_2025_0016_0004_0083_0105.pdf&file_type=pdf https://www.pdcnet.org/logos-episteme/content/logos-episteme_2025_0016_0004_0455_0477 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12020/1805 https://doi.org/10.5840/logos-episteme202516434 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | Filosofía, Filología y Lingüística Interaction-Free Measurements Counterfactuals Quantum Mechanics Conditionals Logic 7205.04 Filosofía de la Física 7205 Filosofía de la Ciencia 11 Lógica |
| Resumo: | The aim of this paper is to carry out a critical analysis of the uses of the material conditionals employed to represent the counterfactual detections taking place inside Elitzur-Vaidman quantum bomb detectors in so-called quantum interaction free measurements (IFMs). We provide an exhaustive philosophical study of this classical approach focusing on its limitations. To do so, we formulate atomic propositions corresponding to the observable events of the experiments, to overcome the shortcomings of the conditional expression. Finally, we show that the standard definition of counterfactuality in quantum contexts based on classical logic is epistemologically too limited, presenting quantum logics as the most promising possible approach to address this type of quantum counterfactuality. |
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