On a recent proposal of faster than light quantum communication

DOI10.1007/S10773-008-9683-4zbMATH Open1160.81004arXiv0711.4538OpenAlexW2067312410WikidataQ62590926 ScholiaQ62590926MaRDI QIDQ1008167FDOQ1008167

Giancarlo Ghirardi, Angelo Bassi

Publication date: 24 March 2009

Published in: International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In a recent paper, A.Y. Shiekh has discussed an experimental set-up which, in his opinion, should make possible faster-than-light communication using the collapse of the quantum wave function. Contrary to the many proposals which have been presented in the past, he does not resort to an entangled state of two systems but he works with a single particle in a superposition of two states - corresponding to its propagation in opposite directions - one of which goes through an appropriate interferometer. The possibility for an observer near the interferometer to introduce or not, at his free will, a phase shifter along one of the paths should allow to change instantaneously the probability of finding the particle in the far-away region corresponding to the other state of the superposition and, correspondingly, to change the intensity of a beam of particles reaching a distant observer. In this paper we show a flaw in the argument: once more, as it has been proved in full generality a long time ago, the process of wave packet reduction cannot be used for superluminal communication.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.4538

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zbMATH Keywords

wave packet reductionfaster-than-light signalling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum computation (81P68) Quantum optics (81V80)

Cites Work

• Bell's theorem and the different concepts of locality
• The role of quantum interference in quantum computing

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• Quantum collapse, consciousness and superluminal communication

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