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Entanglement and the Path Integral

Quantum Physics 2023-01-03 v1

Abstract

The path integral is not typically utilized for analyzing entanglement experiments, in part because there is no standard toolbox for converting an arbitrary experiment into a form allowing a simple sum-over-history calculation. After completing the last portion of this toolbox (a technique for implementing multi-particle measurements in an entangled basis), some interesting 4- and 6-particle experiments are analyzed with this alternate technique. While the joint probabilities of measurement outcomes are always equivalent to conventional quantum mechanics, differences in the calculations motivate a number of foundational insights, concerning nonlocality, retrocausality, and the objectivity of entanglement itself.

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@article{arxiv.2206.02945,
  title  = {Entanglement and the Path Integral},
  author = {Ken Wharton and Raylor Liu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.02945},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

23 pages, 6 figures, comments welcome

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