Locality and nonlinear quantum mechanics

DOI10.1142/S0217751X15500293MaRDI QIDQ5249385zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Chiu Man Ho, Stephen D. H. Hsu

Publication date 5 May 2015

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7018

zbMATH Keywords

entanglementlocalitynonlinear quantum mechanics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Abstract: Nonlinear modifications of quantum mechanics generically lead to nonlocal effects which violate relativistic causality. We study these effects using the functional Schrodinger equation for quantum fields and identify a type of nonlocality which causes nearly instantaneous entanglement of spacelike separated systems. We describe a simple example involving widely separated wave-packet (coherent) states, showing that nonlinearity in the Schrodinger evolution causes spacelike entanglement, even in free field theory.

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