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Various aspects of nonlocality of a quantum wave are discussed. In particular, the question of the possibility of extracting information about the relative phase in a quantum wave is analyzed. It is argued that there is a profound…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Y. Aharonov , L. Vaidman

Gravitational response of real objects is a fascinating topic. Einstein formalized the Galileo-Newton ideas of equality of free falls into complete physical equivalence or the Principle of Equivalence [Albert Einstein, The meaning of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-27 Timir Datta , Ming Yin

An explicit model-example is presented to simulate Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) experiments without invoking instantaneous influences at a distance. The model-example, together with the interpretation of past experiments by Kwiat and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Karl Hess

Even a fundamental symmetry like Lorentz Invariance is an experimental fact and must be experimentally verified. We show that the study of the interactions of Cosmic Rays with universal diffuse background radiation can provide very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aurelio F. Grillo , Roberto Aloisio

Bell's theorem contains the proposition that the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) theory (hypothesis) of the existence of elements of reality together with Einstein locality permits a mathematical description of EPR experiments by functions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-04-08 Karl Hess

The observed time delays between photons with different circular polarizations from an astrophysical object provide a new, interesting way of testing the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). In this paper, we constrain the EEP by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-30 Shuang-Xi Yi , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Jun-Jie Wei , Qi-Qi Zhou

A non-minimal photon-torsion axial coupling in the quantum electrodynamics (QED) framework is considered. The geometrical optics in Riemann-Cartan spacetime is considering and a plane wave expansion of the electromagnetic vector potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 L. C. Garcia de Andrade

A controlled decoherence environment is studied experimentally by free electron interaction with semiconducting and metallic plates. The results are compared with physical models based on decoherence theory to investigate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Peter J. Beierle , Liyun Zhang , Herman Batelaan

We discuss the influence of gravitational waves (GWs) upon the polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR). We show how to compute the {\em rms} temperature anisotropy and polarisation of the CMBR induced by GWs of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 R. A. Frewin , A. G. Polnarev , P. Coles

Metric perturbations affect the phase of gravitational waves as they propagate through the inhomogeneous universe. This effect causes Stochastic Gravitational Wave Backgrounds (SGWBs) to lose any phase coherence that may have been present…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-06 Aoibheann Margalit , Carlo R. Contaldi , Mauro Pieroni

We show that it is possible to explain the quantum measurement process within the framework of quantum mechanics without any additional postulates. The key concept of the theory is decoherence, which appears as an inherent characteristic of…

General Physics · Physics 2019-11-01 Riuji Mochizuki

Bell nonlocality and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) steering are every important quantum correlations of a composite quantum system. Bell nonlocality of a bipartite state is a quantum correlation demonstrated by some local quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Huaixin Cao , Zhihua Guo

In this paper, we review the approach leading to cosmic polarization rotation observation and present the current status with an outlook. In the study of the relations among equivalence principles, we found that long-range…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Wei-Tou Ni

Nowadays, it is commonly admitted that the experimental violation of Bell's inequalities that was successfully demonstrated in the last decades by many experimenters, are indeed the ultimate proof of quantum physics and of its ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Francois Henault

In conventional general relativity without torsion, high-frequency gravitational waves couple to the chiral number density of spin one-half quanta: the polarization of the waves is rotated by $2\pi N_5 {\ell_{\rm Pl}^2}$, where $N_5$ is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-14 Adam D. Helfer

We investigate the relation between the incompatibility of quantum measurements and quantum nonlocality. We show that any set of measurements that is not jointly measurable (i.e. incompatible) can be used for demonstrating EPR steering, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Marco Túlio Quintino , Tamás Vértesi , Nicolas Brunner

We argue that in at least a portion of the history of the universe the relic background neutrinos are spatially-extended, coherent superpositions of mass states. We show that an appropriate quantum mechanical treatment affects the neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 George M. Fuller , Chad T. Kishimoto

The light produced by parametric down-conversion shows strong spatial entanglement that leads to violations of EPR criteria for separability. Historically, such studies have been performed by scanning a single-element, single-photon…

Due to decoherence, realistic quantum systems inevitably interact with the environment when quantum information is processed, which causes the loss of quantum properties. As a fundamental issue of quantum properties, quantum correlations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-16 Nasibollah Doustimotlagh , Jin-Liang Guo , Shuhao Wang

Bloch Oscillations (BOs) of quantum particles manifest themselves as periodic spreading and re-localization of the associated wave functions when traversing lattice potentials subject to external gradient forces. Albeit BOs are deeply…