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A conceptual explanation for nonlocality

Han J.F. Geurdes

Published Dec 2, 2017• 0 citations
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A simple explanation is given for the continuation of the singlet state over large distances in an EPRBA experiment. The paper answers this question with clocks ticking in synchronized frequencies that can be carried by the particles. The connection is an expression of relativity of the clock variables that represent the distant separated spins.

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10.31219/osf.io/f39cz

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Two “thought experiments” are central to most discussions of the famous EPR paradox: Experiment 1, in which two electrons with spins initially coupled to total spin S are carried apart to a great distance (e.g., in a molecular dissociation process), and Experiment 2, which is similar but refers to two bare protons. The crucial question to be asked is whether the spin coupling will be conserved at all distances: if it is, then the system exhibits “nonlocality” (the two particles stay “correlated” in some way, even at infinite distance) and thus violates Einstein's principle of locality—which denies that possibility. A recent discussion of Experiment 1 shows that nonlocality is the rule only up to a point at which the singlet–triplet interval is small enough to be bridged by weak interaction with the “heat bath” in which the system is embedded: Beyond that point, the system is no longer described by a wave function but instead by a statistical ensemble. When ensemble averaging is admitted, the spin-correlation function Qc(r1, r2) decreases to zero at all points in space and the coupling is broken; the particles are then independent and neither can be influenced by its previous interaction with the other. In the present work, the same approach is used to discuss the two-proton system (Experiment 2). The conclusions are similar: The protons are described by appropriate wave packets, with an initial overlap sufficient to give a substantial singlet–triplet separation ΔE, and, again, the spin coupling is broken when the overlap (and, consequently, ΔE) decreases to a sufficiently small value. ©1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Quant Chem 74: 573–584, 1999
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We introduce an ``entangled clock'' in which time is defined operationally by discrete measurement registrations on a singlet state. Locally, each party's tick rate is fixed by the unbiased marginals. The nontrivial resource is the relational (coincidence-tick) stream: because the singlet's information budget is entirely exhausted by joint properties, the only definite temporal structure resides in the correlations between the two parties. Operationally, after exchanging time tags and outcomes, Alice and Bob identify synchronized events (that is, the ++++++ channel) and thereby obtain a joint tick record. Comparing the ++++++ coincidence rate R(θ)=P_{++}(\vec a,\vec b) to Peres' isotropic bomb-fragment local-hidden-variable model (yielding R_{\mathrm{cl}}(θ)=θ/(2π)), we find that for obtuse analyzer separations the quantum prediction exceeds this natural classical benchmark, with a maximal relative excess of about 13.6\% near θ\approx 140.5^\circ. We emphasize that this ``faster ticking'' refers to the rate of identified coincidence ticks under a specific operational convention, not to an improved local clock rate, precision, or stability. Finally, by using multiple settings and a Bell test, we outline ``Certified Private Time'': a device-independent certification of unpredictability/privacy of the relational time-stamp record against adversaries lacking foreknowledge of the settings, analogous to certified randomness generation.