Violation of Bell's Inequality and Postulate on Simultaneous Measurement of Compatible Observables
Andrei Yu. Khrennikov
We discuss coupling of violation of Bell's inequality and non-Kolmogorovness of statistical data in the EPR-Bohm experiment. We emphasize that nonlocalty and "death of realism" are only sufficient, but not necessary conditions of non-Kolmogorovness. There can be found other sufficient conditions of non-Kolmogorovness and, hence, violation of Bell's inequality. We find one important source of non-Kolmogorovness by analyzing axiomatics of quantum mechanics. We pay attention to the postulate (due to von Neumann and Dirac) on simultaneous measurement of quantum observables given by commuting operators. This postulate is criticized as nonphysical. We propose a new interpretation of the Born-von Neumann-Dirac rule for calculation of the joint probability distribution for such observables. It gets a natural physical interpretation by considering conditional measurement scheme. We use this argument (i.e., rejection of the postulate on simultaneous measurement to motivate non-Kolmogorovness of the probabilistic structure of the EPR-Bohm experiment.
arXiv:1102.4743•Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience•Mar 23, 2011•19 citations