Causality and local determinism versus quantum nonlocality

Emergent Quantum Mechanics 2013

物理学;力学

Kupczynski, M.^1

Département de l'Informatique, UQO, Case postale 1250, succursale Hull, Gatineau. QC, J8X 3X7, Canada^1

关键词: Experimental protocols;    Local parameters;    Measuring instruments;    Physical signal;    Probabilistic models;    Quantum nonlocality;    Quantum prediction;    Systematic searches;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/504/1/012015/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/504/1/012015

学科分类：力学，机械学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The entanglement and the violation of Bell and CHSH inequalities in spin polarization correlation experiments (SPCE) is considered to be one of the biggest mysteries of Nature and is called quantum nonlocality. In this paper we show once again that this conclusion is based on imprecise terminology and on the lack of understanding of probabilistic models used in various proofs of Bell and CHSH theorems. These models are inconsistent with experimental protocols used in SPCE. This is the only reason why Bell and CHSH inequalities are violated. A probabilistic non-signalling description of SPCE, consistent with quantum predictions, is possible and it depends explicitly on the context of each experiment. It is also deterministic in the sense that the outcome is determined by supplementary local parameters describing both physical signals and measuring instruments. The existence of such description gives additional arguments that quantum theory is emergent from some more detailed theory respecting causality and local determinism. If quantum theory is emergent then there exist perhaps some fine structures in time-series of experimental data which were not predicted by quantum theory. In this paper we explain how a systematic search for such fine structures can be done. If such reproducible fine structures were found it would show that quantum theory is not predictably complete, which would be a major discovery.