Local de Broglie-Bohm Trajectories from Entangled Wavefunctions
Abstract
We present a local interpretation of what is usually considered to be a nonlocal de Broglie-Bohm trajectory prescription for an entangled singlet state of massive particles. After reviewing various meanings of the term ``nonlocal'', we show that by using appropriately retarded wavefunctions (i.e., the locality loophole) this local model can violate Bell's inequality, without making any appeal to detector inefficiencies. We analyze a possible experimental configuration appropriate to massive two-particle singlet wavefunctions and find that as long as the particles are not ultra-relativistic, a locality loophole exists and Dirac wave(s) can propagate from Alice or Bob's changing magnetic field, through space, to the other detector, arriving before the particle and thereby allowing a local interpretation to the 2-particle de Broglie-Bohm trajectories. We also propose a physical effect due to changing magnetic fields in a Stern-Gerlach EPR setup that will throw away events and create a detector loophole in otherwise perfectly efficient detectors, an effect that is only significant for near-luminal particles that might otherwise close the locality loophole.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0704.0766,
title = {Local de Broglie-Bohm Trajectories from Entangled Wavefunctions},
author = {Michael Clover},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0704.0766},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages, no figures v2: fix minor grammatical infelicities, added some references