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Though many experiments appear to have confirmed the light speed invariance postulate of special relativity theory, this postulate is actually unverified. This paper resolves this issue by first showing the manner in which an illusion of…

General Physics · Physics 2007-08-21 Stephan J. G. Gift

Tunnelling processes are thought to proceed via virtual waves due to observed superluminal (faster than light) signal speeds. Some assume such speeds must violate causality. These assumptions contradict, for instance, superluminally…

Optics · Physics 2015-03-24 Horst Aichmann , Guenter Nimtz , Paul Bruney

The paper elucidates the physical basis of experimental results on superluminal signal velocity. It will be made plausible that superluminal signals do not violate the principle of causality but they can shorten the luminal vacuum time span…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 G. Nimtz , A. Haibel

The possible connection between EPR correlations and superluminal interactions, as suggested by Bell and Bohm, is discussed using simple and palpable arguments: (a) It is shown how an experiment based on time-like events can allow us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-13 Luiz Carlos Ryff

In a local realist world view, physical properties are defined prior to and independent of measurement, and no physical influence can propagate faster than the speed of light. Proper experimental violation of a Bell inequality would show…

We create pairs of non-degenerate time-bin entangled photons at telecom wavelengths with ultra-short pump pulses. Entanglement is shown by performing Bell kind tests of the Franson type with visibilities of up to 91%. As time-bin…

A means and protocol is presented to send information on the Bell Channel to achieve the effect of superluminal signalling. The method is to use detection of a photon entangled state as one binary digit and either of the collapsed states as…

General Physics · Physics 2011-06-14 R. O. Cornwall

We show a device with which, apparently, information (in the form of a "slash-dot" code) is instantly transmitted via Bell state collapse, over arbitrary distance. We show then why the device does not actually work, and discuss about the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-24 Daniel O. Badagnani

A simple minimalist argument is given for why some correlations between quantum systems boggle our classical intuition. The argument relies on two elementary physical assumptions, and recovers the standard experimentally-testable Bell…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-29 Michael J. W. Hall

In this paper we present thoughtful comments on the paper `Bessel beams and signal propagation' showing that the main claims of that paper are wrong. Moreover, we take the opportunity to show the non trivial and indeed surprising result…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Capelas de Oliveira , W. A. Rodrigues , D. S. Thober , A. L. Xavier

For over 7 decades it has been debated as to whether nonlocality is strictly of an uncontrollable nature. Based upon polarization measurements with entangled photons, it has been revealed that nonlocality cannot be used to achieve…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Fred H. Thaheld

We analyze some aspects of recently performed Franson-type experiments with entangled photon pairs aimed to test Bell's inequalities. We point out that quantum theory leads to the coincidence rate between detectors which includes in fact a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-23 A. A. Baranov , A. N. Pechen , I. V. Volovich

As generally known, the speed of propagation of light in solid state bodies can be different from the speed of light in vacuum. That the mere presence of electric or magnetic fields in the vacuum can suffice to influence the speed of light,…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Claus W. Turtur

Experimental tests of Bell-type inequalities distinguishing between quantum mechanics and local realistic theories remain of considerable interest if performed on massive particles, for which no conclusive result has yet been obtained. Only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-09 M. Iannuzzi , R. Messi , D. Moricciani , A. Orecchini , F. Sacchetti

In a recent paper the author proposed the possibility of an experiment to perform faster-than-light communication via the collapse of the quantum wave-function. This was analyzed by Bassi and Ghirardi, and it is believed that this analysis…

General Physics · Physics 2008-06-28 A. Y. Shiekh

Direct detection experiments and the interpretation of their results are sensitive to the velocity structure of the dark matter in our galactic halo. In this work, we extend the formalism that deals with such astrophysics-driven…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-09 Elias Bernreuther , Patrick J. Fox , Benjamin Lillard , Anna-Maria Taki , Tien-Tien Yu

Experiments have shown that individual photons penetrate an optical tunnel barrier with an effective group velocity considerably greater than the vacuum speed of light. The experiments were conducted with a two-photon parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Raymond Y. Chiao

In a previous work we have shown that the null result of the Michelson-Morley experiment in vacuum is deeply connected with the notion of time. The same is true for the the postulate of constancy of the two-way speed of light in vacuum in…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodrigo de Abreu , Vasco Guerra

Quantum entanglement plays a vital role in many quantum information and communication tasks. Entangled states of higher dimensional systems are of great interest due to the extended possibilities they provide. For example, they allow the…

We simulate correlation measurements of entangled photons numerically. The model employed is strictly local. The correlation is determined by its classical expression with one decisive difference: we sum up coincidences for each pair…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. A. Hofer