Bell correlations and the common future

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-74971-6_18MaRDI QIDQ4646392zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ämin Baumeler, Julien Degorre, S. Wolf

Publication date 11 January 2019

Published in Quantum Foundations, Probability and Information (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.04194

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

Abstract: Reichenbach's principle states that in a causal structure, correlations of classical information can stem from a common cause in the common past or a direct influence from one of the events in correlation to the other. The difficulty of explaining Bell correlations through a mechanism in that spirit can be read as questioning either the principle or even its basis: causality. In the former case, the principle can be replaced by its quantum version, accepting as a common cause an entangled state, leaving the phenomenon as mysterious as ever on the classical level (on which, after all, it occurs). If, more radically, the causal structure is questioned in principle, closed space-time curves may become possible that, as is argued in the present note, can give rise to non-local correlations if to-be-correlated pieces of classical information meet in the common future --- which they need to if the correlation is to be detected in the first place. The result is a view resembling Brassard and Raymond-Robichaud's parallel-lives variant of Hermann's and Everett's relative-state formalism, avoiding "multiple realities."

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