Measurements on the separated subsystems of an entangled state
Abstract
The entangled states of composite quantum systems are well studied. The particle-like nature of these systems also means that, while entangled, they can be physically separated and measurements performed on the separated subsystems. Measurements on the separated subsystems A and B should pertain to vectors in the local Hilbert space of each subsystem, but to date it has not been clear how to elucidate the relevant states of the separated subsystems because it is not obvious how to resolve them from states given in the tensor product basis, except for the separable states. Here it is shown that the projections of any general entangled state that are detected by measurements on the separated subsystems can be obtained considering the corresponding (cosets of) states in the free vector space from which the tensor product space is defined. The result eliminates the need to invoke random collapse, and from this perspective nonlocality arises because of the way measurements on each separated subsystem projects possible measurement outcomes.
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BibTeX
@misc{scholes2026measurements,
title = {{Measurements on the separated subsystems of an entangled state}},
author = {Gregory D. Scholes},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.04178},
eprint = {2609.04178},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04178},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Measurements on the separated subsystems of an entangled state
AU - Gregory D. Scholes
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/25
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.04178
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.04178
AB - The entangled states of composite quantum systems are well studied. The particle-like nature of these systems also means that, while entangled, they can be physically separated and measurements performed on the separated subsystems. Measurements on the separated subsystems A and B should pertain to vectors in the local Hilbert space of each subsystem, but to date it has not been clear how to elucidate the relevant states of the separated subsystems because it is not obvious how to resolve them from states given in the tensor product basis, except for the separable states. Here it is shown that the projections of any general entangled state that are detected by measurements on the separated subsystems can be obtained considering the corresponding (cosets of) states in the free vector space from which the tensor product space is defined. The result eliminates the need to invoke random collapse, and from this perspective nonlocality arises because of the way measurements on each separated subsystem projects possible measurement outcomes.
ER -