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The interpretation of quantum mechanics continues to be debated, and quantum nonlocality accentuates the puzzle. Quantum interpretations can be classified broadly into two types: realist interpretations, which assert that quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Vivek Kumar , M. P. Singh , R. Srikanth

It is shown that when properly analyzed using principles consistent with the use of a Hilbert space to describe microscopic properties, quantum mechanics is a local theory: one system cannot influence another system with which it does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Robert B. Griffiths

Quantum Mechanics lacks an intuitive interpretation, which is the cause of a generally formalistic approach to its use. This in turn has led to a certain insensitivity to the actual meaning of many words used in its description and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. F. Kracklauer

The paper develops a version of modal logic that stays completely within the framework provided by quantum principles, and then proves, within the framework of quantum thinking, and in particular without invoking "hidden variables", a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Henry P. Stapp

Quantum nonlocality can be revealed "via local contextuality" in qudit-qudit entangled systems with $d > 2$, that is, through the violation of inequalities containing Alice-Bob correlations that admit a local description, and Alice-Alice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 Debashis Saha , Adán Cabello , Sujit K. Choudhary , Marcin Pawłowski

Huw Price has proposed an argument that suggests a time-symmetric ontology for quantum theory must necessarily be retrocausal, i.e. it must involve influences that travel backwards in time. One of Price's assumptions is that the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-26 Matthew Leifer , Matthew Pusey

We will show for undergraduate and graduate students of physics that Quantum Mechanics is an incomplete and non-local theory. The problem of non-locality is discussed by analyzing the Bell's theorem where are considered correlations between…

General Physics · Physics 2011-03-03 M. Cattani

A 1964 paper by John Bell gave the first demonstration that quantum mechanics is incompatible with local hidden variables. There is an ongoing and vigorous debate on whether he relied on an assumption of determinism, or instead, as he later…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Michael J. W. Hall

The notion of Non-Locality (NL) in physics has great epistemological implications and impact on the perceptive of Reality. Numerous counter intuitive experimental results that clearly violate Bell's inequality have prompted several…

General Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 Narayanankutty Karuppath , P. Achuthan

As first shown by Popescu [S. Popescu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 2619 (1995)], some quantum states only reveal their nonlocality when subjected to a sequence of measurements while giving rise to local correlations in standard Bell tests.…

The problem of causality is analyzed in the context of Local Quantum Field Theory. Contrary to recent claims, it is shown that apparent noncausal behaviour is due to a lack of the notion of sharp localizability for a relativistic quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 L. Maiani , M. Testa

L. Vervoort [arxiv:1406.0901] claims to have found a model which "can violate the Bell inequality and reproduce the quantum statistics, even if it is based on local dynamics only". This claim is false. The proposed model contains global…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-27 I. Schmelzer

We analyze nonclassical correlations between outcomes of measurements conducted on two spatial radiation modes. These correlations cannot be simulated with statistical mixtures of coherent states or, more generally, with non-negative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 V. S. Kovtoniuk , I. S. Yeremenko , S. Ryl , W. Vogel , A. A. Semenov

A century after the advent of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, both theories enjoy incredible empirical success, constituting the cornerstones of modern physics. Yet, paradoxically, they suffer from deep-rooted, so-far intractable,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-20 Elizabeth S. Gould , Niayesh Afshordi

A local description of quantum subsystems can be used to construct ontologies of the full quantum predictions. This paper communicates one possible way to do so. A retrocausal interpretation of quantum mechanics where the de Broglie-Bohm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Adam Brownstein

There are two powerful arguments against the possibility of extending quantum mechanics, the violation of Bell inequalities and the Kochen-Specker theorem, but the connection between the two remains confused. Following the distinctive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-08 Jianqi Sheng , Dongkai Zhang , Lixiang Chen

Fundamental principle of classical physics -- local realism, means that freely chosen observations can be explained by a local (slower than light) real process. It is apparently violated in quantum mechanics as shown by Bell theorem.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-07 Adam Bednorz

Quantum nonlocality may be an artifact of the assumption that observers obey the laws of classical mechanics, while observed systems obey quantum mechanics. I show that, at least in the case of Bell's Theorem, locality is restored if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank J. Tipler

The controversy between relativistic causality and quantum non-locality can be resolved by establishing the general relativistic background of quantum non-locality.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Erast B. Gliner

Complementarity and nonlocality are two characteristic traits of quantum physics that distinguishes it from classical physics. In this paper, we prove that the complementarity between global and local observables in Bell's experiment sets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-17 Hai Wang , Asutosh Kumar , Junde Wu