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Restoring Local Causality and Objective Reality to the Entangled Photons

Christian, Joy (2011) Restoring Local Causality and Objective Reality to the Entangled Photons. [Preprint]

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Unlike our basic theories of space and time, quantum mechanics is not a locally causal theory. This well known fact was brought forth by Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR) in 1935. Today it is widely believed that any hopes of restoring local causality within a realistic theory have been undermined by Bell's theorem and its supporting experiments. By contrast, we provide a strictly local, deterministic, and realistic explanation for the correlations observed in two such supporting experiments performed at Orsay and Innsbruck. To this end, a pair of local variables is constructed to simulate detections of photon polarizations at various angles, chosen freely by Alice and Bob. These generate purely random outcomes: A = +/-1 and B = +/-1. When these outcomes are compared, however, the correlation between them turn out to be exactly equal to -cos2(alpha - beta), with the corresponding CHSH inequality violated for the polarization angles alpha, alpha', beta, and beta' in precisely the manner predicted by quantum mechanics. The key ingredient in our explanation is the topology of 3-sphere, which remains closed under multiplication, thus preserving the locality condition of Bell.


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Christian, Joyjoy.christian@wolfson.ox.ac.uk
Keywords: Bell's theorem, Einstein, EPR, Local causality, Objective Reality, Quantum Entanglement, Local Realism, Nonlocality
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User: Dr. Joy Christian
Date Deposited: 08 Jun 2011 13:24
Last Modified: 15 Jun 2011 01:29
Item ID: 8658
Subjects: Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date: 7 June 2011
URI: https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/8658

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