Ciepielewski, Gerardo Sanjuan and Okon, Elias (2022) From locality to factorizability: a novel escape from Bell's theorem. [Preprint]

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Abstract

While initial versions of Bell's theorem captured the notion of locality with the assumption of factorizability, in later presentations, Bell argued that factorizability could be derived from the more fundamental principle of local causality. Here we show that, contrary to what is commonly assumed, in order to derive factorizability from the principle of local causality, a non-trivial assumption, similar but strictly independent of settings independence, is required. Loosely speaking, such an extra assumption demands independence between the states of the measurement apparatuses. We conclude that it is possible to construct a model, satisfying both the principle of local causality and settings independence, but that, in virtue of violating this additional assumption--and thus factorizability--is able to break Bell's inequality.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Ciepielewski, Gerardo Sanjuan cgsciepielewski@gmail.com Okon, Elias eokon@filosoficas.unam.mx
Keywords:	Bell's theorem; Non-locality; Bell's inequality; Principle of local causality.
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Depositing User:	Dr. Elias Okon
Date Deposited:	16 Apr 2022 04:13
Last Modified:	16 Apr 2022 04:13
Item ID:	20451
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics Specific Sciences > Physics > Relativity Theory
Date:	11 April 2022
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/20451

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