Entanglement and indistinguishability in a quantum ontology of properties

SEBASTIAN FORTIN; OLIMPIA LOMBARDI

STUDIES IN HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

ELSEVIER SCI LTD

Lugar: Amsterdam; Año: 2022 vol. 91 p. 234 - 243

0039-3681

The aim of the presentarticle is to address the problem of entanglement in the case ofindistinguishable particles from a perspective based on the algebraic formalismof quantum mechanics, which is the natural formal counterpart of an ontology ofproperties, devoid of the ontological category of individual. On the basis ofthis perspective, an algebraic definition of entanglement is adopted, whichsupplies a unified conception, valid for both the distinguishable and theindistinguishable cases. An additional advantage of this algebraic definitionis that it does justice to the relativity of entanglement, a feature thatcannot be ignored.