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Bose-Einstein condensates and quantum non-locality

Other Condensed Matter 2017-08-23 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

The EPR argument points to the existence of additional variables that are necessary to complete standard quantum theory. It was dismissed by Bohr because it attributes physical reality to isolated microscopic systems, independently of the macroscopic measurement apparatus. Here, we transpose the EPR argument to macroscopic systems, assuming that they are in spatially extended Fock spin states and subject to spin measurements in remote regions of space. Bohr's refutation of the EPR argument does not seem to apply in this case, since the difference of scale between the microscopic measured system and the macroscopic measuring apparatus can no longer be invoked.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0611043,
  title  = {Bose-Einstein condensates and quantum non-locality},
  author = {Franck Laloë},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0611043},
  year   = {2017}
}

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contribution to the workshop "Beyond que quantum", at the Lorentz Institute (Leiden, Netherlands) in may 2006