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Get Rid of Nonlocality from Quantum Physics
This paper is aimed to dissociate nonlocality from quantum theory. We demonstrate that the tests on violation of the Bell type inequalities are simply statistical tests of local incompatibility of observables. In fact, these are tests on violation of the Bohr complementarity principle. Thus, the att...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515335/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33267519 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21080806 |
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description | This paper is aimed to dissociate nonlocality from quantum theory. We demonstrate that the tests on violation of the Bell type inequalities are simply statistical tests of local incompatibility of observables. In fact, these are tests on violation of the Bohr complementarity principle. Thus, the attempts to couple experimental violations of the Bell type inequalities with “quantum nonlocality” is really misleading. These violations are explained in the quantum theory as exhibitions of incompatibility of observables for a single quantum system, e.g., the spin projections for a single electron or the polarization projections for a single photon. Of course, one can go beyond quantum theory with the hidden variables models (as was suggested by Bell) and then discuss their possible nonlocal features. However, conventional quantum theory is local. |
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spelling | pubmed-75153352020-11-09 Get Rid of Nonlocality from Quantum Physics Khrennikov, Andrei Entropy (Basel) Article This paper is aimed to dissociate nonlocality from quantum theory. We demonstrate that the tests on violation of the Bell type inequalities are simply statistical tests of local incompatibility of observables. In fact, these are tests on violation of the Bohr complementarity principle. Thus, the attempts to couple experimental violations of the Bell type inequalities with “quantum nonlocality” is really misleading. These violations are explained in the quantum theory as exhibitions of incompatibility of observables for a single quantum system, e.g., the spin projections for a single electron or the polarization projections for a single photon. Of course, one can go beyond quantum theory with the hidden variables models (as was suggested by Bell) and then discuss their possible nonlocal features. However, conventional quantum theory is local. MDPI 2019-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7515335/ /pubmed/33267519 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21080806 Text en © 2019 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
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title | Get Rid of Nonlocality from Quantum Physics |
title_full | Get Rid of Nonlocality from Quantum Physics |
title_fullStr | Get Rid of Nonlocality from Quantum Physics |
title_full_unstemmed | Get Rid of Nonlocality from Quantum Physics |
title_short | Get Rid of Nonlocality from Quantum Physics |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515335/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33267519 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21080806 |
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