Testing super-deterministic hidden variables theories
Quantum Physics
2011-08-02 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Abstract
We propose to experimentally test non-deterministic time evolution in quantum mechanics by consecutive measurements of non-commuting observables on the same prepared state. While in the standard theory the measurement outcomes are uncorrelated, in a super-deterministic hidden variables theory the measurements would be correlated. We estimate that for macroscopic experiments the correlation time is too short to have been noticed yet, but that it may be possible with a suitably designed microscopic experiment to reach a parameter range where one would expect a super-deterministic modification of quantum mechanics to become relevant.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1105.4326,
title = {Testing super-deterministic hidden variables theories},
author = {Sabine Hossenfelder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.4326},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
12 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Foundations of Physics