Some Personal Reflections on Quantum Nonlocality and the Contributions of John Bell

DOI10.1017/CBO9781316219393.023zbMATH Open1356.81034arXiv1412.0594OpenAlexW1876603956MaRDI QIDQ2956274FDOQ2956274

Authors: Basil Hiley 

Publication date: 16 January 2017

Abstract: I present the background of the Bohm approach that led John Bell to a study of quantum non-locality from which his famous inequalities emerged. I recall the early experiments done at Birkbeck with an aim to explore the possibility of `spontaneous collapse', a way suggested by Schr"{o}dinger to avoid the conclusion that quantum mechanics was grossly non-local. I also review some of the work that John did which directly impinged on my own investigations into the foundations of quantum mechanics and report some new investigations towards a more fundamental theory.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.0594

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40)

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