A Mechanism for Entanglement?

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Hauptverfasser: Price, Huw, Wharton, Ken
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author Price, Huw
Wharton, Ken
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Wharton, Ken
contents We propose that quantum entanglement is a special sort of selection artefact, explicable as a combination of (i) collider bias and (ii) a boundary constraint on the collider variable. We show that the proposal is valid for a special class of (`W-shaped') Bell experiments involving delayed-choice entanglement swapping, and argue that it can be extended to the ordinary (`V-shaped') case. The proposal requires no direct causal influence outside lightcones, and may hence offer a way to reconcile Bell nonlocality and relativity. The main argument is a detailed version of an approach previously outlined in arXiv:2404.13928 [quant-ph].
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spellingShingle A Mechanism for Entanglement?
Price, Huw
Wharton, Ken
Quantum Physics
History and Philosophy of Physics
We propose that quantum entanglement is a special sort of selection artefact, explicable as a combination of (i) collider bias and (ii) a boundary constraint on the collider variable. We show that the proposal is valid for a special class of (`W-shaped') Bell experiments involving delayed-choice entanglement swapping, and argue that it can be extended to the ordinary (`V-shaped') case. The proposal requires no direct causal influence outside lightcones, and may hence offer a way to reconcile Bell nonlocality and relativity. The main argument is a detailed version of an approach previously outlined in arXiv:2404.13928 [quant-ph].
title A Mechanism for Entanglement?
topic Quantum Physics
History and Philosophy of Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04571