arXiv:quant-ph/9501019 · Physical Review Letters

Nonlocal Effects in Fock Space

Asher Peres

Published Jun 5, 1995• 53 citations

Abstract

If a physical system contains a single particle, and if two distant detectors test the presence of linear superpositions of one-particle and vacuum states, a violation of classical locality can occur, due to the creation of a two-particle component by the detecting process itself.

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.74.4571

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