Picturing wavepacket reduction

TL;DR

This paper proposes a deterministic, realist interpretation of wavepacket reduction that explains various quantum experiments without relying on knowledge or information concepts.

Contribution

It introduces a new coherent picture of wavepacket reduction within a deterministic framework, avoiding the use of knowledge or point particles.

Findings

Accounts for interaction-free and delayed-choice experiments

Explains interference with partial absorption

Provides a realist interpretation of wavepacket reduction

Abstract

A coherent picture of the wavepacket-reduction process is proposed which is formulated in the framework of a deterministic and realist interpretation where the concepts of knowledge or information and of point particles do not appear. It is shown how the picture accounts for the experiments on interaction-free and delayed-choice measurements and those on interference with partial absorption.