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EPR-Bell-Schrödinger proof of nonlocality using position and momentum. (English) Zbl 1473.81041

Allori, Valia (ed.) et al., Do wave functions jump? Perspectives of the work of GianCarlo Ghirardi. Cham: Springer. Fundam. Theor. Phys. 198, 5-33 (2021).
Summary: Based on his extension of the classical argument of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen, Schrödinger observed that, in certain quantum states associated with pairs of particles that can be far away from one another, the result of the measurement of an observable associated with one particle is perfectly correlated with the result of the measurement of another observable associated with the other particle. Combining this with the assumption of locality and some “no hidden variables” theorems, we showed in a previous paper [the authors, preprint, 30 p. (2018; arxiv:1808.01648)] that this yields a contradiction. This means that the assumption of locality is false, and thus provides us with another demonstration of quantum nonlocality that does not involve Bell’s (or any other) inequalities. In [loc. cit.] we introduced only “spin-like” observables acting on finite dimensional Hilbert spaces. Here we will give a similar argument using the variables originally used by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen, namely position and momentum.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1472.81002].

MSC:

81P40 Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations
81-03 History of quantum theory
01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century
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