Null-result detection and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations

DOI10.1007/S10701-013-9762-0MaRDI QIDQ2015109zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors L. C. Ryff

Publication date 18 June 2014

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.5092

zbMATH Keywords

Bell's theoremfoundations of quantum mechanicsquantum nonlocalityEinstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlationsfoundations of special relativitynull (or negative)-result measurement

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Special relativity (83A05)

Abstract: It follows from Bell's theorem and quantum mechanics that the detection of a particle of an entangled pair can (somehow) "force" the other distant particle of the pair into a well-defined state (which is equivalente to a reduction of the state vector): no property previously shared by the particles can explain the predicted correlations. This result has been corroborated by experiment. However, it has not been experimantally proved-and it is far from obvious-that the absence of detection, as in null-result (NR) experiments could have the very same effect. In this paper a way to try to bridge this gap is suggested. As already shown for the case of EPR correlations, if NR detections cannot induce a reduction of the state vector, then faster-than-light (FTL) communication becomes possible, at least in pr'inciple. But it will be demonstrated that-as entertained by Bohm-this does not necessarily lead to a causal paradox, or to the rejection of the Lorentz transformations.

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