The ABC of Deutsch-Hayden Descriptors
Charles Alexandre B\'edard

TL;DR
This paper revisits the Deutsch-Hayden descriptor formalism to clarify its role in demonstrating the locality of quantum theory, providing an accessible explanation and re-examining superdense coding within this framework.
Contribution
It offers a clear, self-contained explanation of the Deutsch-Hayden descriptors, addressing misconceptions about quantum locality and illustrating their application to superdense coding.
Findings
Descriptors demonstrate quantum locality despite entanglement
The formalism clarifies misconceptions about nonlocality in quantum theory
Superdense coding is analyzed using the descriptor approach
Abstract
It has been more than 20 years since Deutsch and Hayden proved the locality of quantum theory, using the Heisenberg picture of quantum computational networks. Of course, locality holds even in the face of entanglement and Bell's theorem. Today, most researchers in quantum foundations are still convinced not only that a local description of quantum systems has not yet been provided, but that it cannot exist. The main goal of this paper is to address this misconception by re-explaining the descriptor formalism in a hopefully accessible and self-contained way. It is a step-by-step guide to how and why descriptors work. Finally, superdense coding is revisited in the light of descriptors.
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