"What we have learnt from this chapter is that we cannot have a direct evidence of, i.e. directly measure, a quantum state of a single system. Our experience is only connected with the experimental values of observables, and any time we measure an observable we can only have a partial experience of a system under a certain perspective but we can never have a complete experience that would be represented by an observation of the state vector, which is – in a quantum-mechanical sense – a complete description of the system. In other words, the quantum state is not an observable in the classical sense. However, since this feature of the quantum state is not due to subjective ignorance but rather to an intrinsic characteristic of the microscopic world, there are no definitive reasons to deny the reality of a quantum state."
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Gennaro Auletta, Mauro Fortunato and Giorgio Parisi, Quantum Mechanics (2009)
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