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"Systemic Nonlocality" from Changing Constraints on Sub-Quantum Kinematics

Quantum Physics 2013-06-12 v1

Abstract

In a new approach to explain double-slit interference "from the single particle perspective" via "systemic nonlocality", we answer the question of how a particle going through one slit can "know" about the state of the other slit. We show that this comes about by changed constraints on assumed classical sub-quantum currents, which we have recently employed to derive probability distributions and Bohm-type trajectories in standard double-slit interference on the basis of a modern, 21st century classical physics. Despite claims in the literature that this scenario is to be described by a dynamical nonlocality that could best be understood in the framework of the Heisenberg picture (Tollaksen et al., 2010), we show that an explanation can be cast within the framework of the intuitively appealing Schroedinger picture as well. We refer neither to potentials nor to a "quantum force" or some other dynamics, but show that a "systemic nonlocality" may be obtained as a phenomenon that emerges from an assumed sub-quantum kinematics, which is manipulated only by changing its constraints as determined by the changes of the apparatus. Consequences are discussed with respect to the prohibition of superluminal signaling by standard relativity theory.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1303.2867,
  title  = {"Systemic Nonlocality" from Changing Constraints on Sub-Quantum Kinematics},
  author = {Gerhard Groessing and Siegfried Fussy and Johannes Mesa Pascasio and Herbert Schwabl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.2867},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

23 pages, 6 figures; Invited talk "In Defense of Schroedinger" at the Sixth International Workshop DICE2012, Castiglioncello (Tuscany), September 17--21, 2012

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