Quantum locality, rings a Bell?: Bell's inequality meets local reality and true determinism

DOI10.1007/S10701-017-0126-ZzbMATH Open1386.81090arXiv1605.08493OpenAlexW3102263842MaRDI QIDQ1742833FDOQ1742833

Authors: Natalia Sánchez-Kuntz, E. Nahmad-Achar 

Publication date: 12 April 2018

Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: By assuming a deterministic evolution of quantum systems and taking realism into account, we carefully build a hidden variable theory for Quantum Mechanics based on the notion of ontological states proposed by 't Hooft. We view these ontological states as the ones embedded with realism and compare them to the (usual) quantum states that represent superpositions, viewing the latter as mere information of the system they describe. Such a deterministic model puts forward conditions for the applicability of Bell's inequality: the usual inequality cannot be applied to the usual experiments. We build a Bell-like inequality that can be applied to the EPR scenario and show that this inequality is always satisfied by Quantum Mechanics. In this way we show that Quantum Mechanics can indeed have a local interpretation, and thus meet with the causal structure imposed by the Theory of Special Relativity in a satisfying way.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.08493

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zbMATH Keywords

foundations of quantum mechanicshidden variablesquantum locality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Alternative quantum mechanics (including hidden variables, etc.) (81Q65)

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