Causality, measurement, and elementary interactions
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Publication:429836
DOI10.1007/S10701-011-9576-XzbMATH Open1245.81008arXiv1007.4608OpenAlexW3104444257MaRDI QIDQ429836FDOQ429836
Authors: Edward J. Gillis 
Publication date: 20 June 2012
Published in: Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Signal causality, the prohibition of superluminal information transmission, is the fundamental property shared by quantum measurement theory and relativity, and it is the key to understanding the connection between nonlocal measurement effects and elementary interactions. To prevent those effects from transmitting information between the generating and observing process, they must be induced by the kinds of entangling interactions that constitute measurements, as implied in the Projection Postulate. They must also be nondeterministic as reflected in the Born Probability Rule. The nondeterminism of entanglement-generating processes explains why the relevant types of information cannot be instantiated in elementary systems, and why the sequencing of nonlocal effects is, in principle, unobservable. This perspective suggests a simple hypothesis about nonlocal transfers of amplitude during entangling interactions, which yields straightforward experimental consequences.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4608
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