English

Wigner-function description of EPR experiment

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We provide a detailed description of the EPR paradox (in the Bohm version) for a two qubit-state in the discrete Wigner function formalism. We compare the probability distributions for two qubit relevant to simultaneously-measurable observables (computed from the Wigner function) with the probability distributions representing two perfectly-correlated classic particles in a discrete phase-space. We write in both cases the updating formulae after a measure, thus obtaining a mathematical definition of \textit{classic collapse} and \textit{quantum collapse}. We study, with the EPR experiment, the joint probability distributions of Alice's and Bob's qubit before and after the measure, analyzing the non-local effects. In particular, we give a more precise definition of locality, which we call m-locality: we show that quantum systems may violate this kind of locality, thus preserving, in an EPR-like argument, the completeness of Quantum Mechanics.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0701075,
  title  = {Wigner-function description of EPR experiment},
  author = {Riccardo Franco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0701075},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

8 pages