Isaac Scientific Publishing

Theoretical Physics

Correlation, Entanglement and Locality of Quantum Theory

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DOI: 10.22606/tp.2017.22002

Author(s)

  • S.V.Gantsevich*
    Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • V.L.Gurevich

    Ioffe Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia

Abstract

In recent decades it was established that the measurements of physical quantities in space-time points divided by large space-like intervals can be correlated. The correlation is created by the measurements while their mutual influence requires the corresponding supraliminal velocities. This situation is commonly known as the violation of the Bell inequality in the Bohm version of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox. Nearly 40 years the question remains disputable with a variety of contradicting views. The most frequently the violation is explained by the existence of some momentary action at a distance which obliges the quantum mechanics (as well as all nature) to be nonlocal. We find the "common cause in the past" as the origin of the observed quantum correlation which so far was unnoticed either by the partisans of quantum non-locality or their opponents. The novelty of our approach is the accent on the expressions for the observed physical quantities rather than on the "entangled" two-particle wave functions. We show the crucial role of phases in the correlation process that is hard to notice using the traditional approach.

Keywords

Quantum correlation, entangled states, bell inequality, EPR-paradox

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