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Apparent teleportation of indistinguishable particles

Nuclear Theory 2025-07-31 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Quantum Physics

Abstract

Teleportation, introduced in science fiction literature, is an instantaneous change of the position of a macroscopic object. Two teleportation-like phenomena have been predicted by quantum mechanics: quantum teleportation and, more recently, quantum particle teleportation. Here, we introduce the third teleportation-like phenomenon - apparent teleportation. It seems to be a natural consequence of the Standard Model's indistinguishable elementary particles and antiparticles. We illustrate the idea within a 1+1D toy model of particle-antiparticle creation and space-time evolution obeying transport locality. Furthermore, we propose a novel method to observe apparent teleportation driven by strong interactions through measurements of correlations between the momenta of charm and anticharm hadrons in nuclear collisions. Observing the apparent teleportation would uncover the basic transport properties of indistinguishable particles.

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@article{arxiv.2503.10565,
  title  = {Apparent teleportation of indistinguishable particles},
  author = {Marek Gazdzicki and Daniel Kikola and Ivan Pidhurskyi and Leonardo Tinti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.10565},
  year   = {2025}
}

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19 pages, 8 figures