Why Local Realistic Theories Violate, Nontrivially, the Quantum Mechanical EPR Perfect Correlations
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8399300 |
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| Authors | Andrew Elby (0000-0002-1965-8406, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 213-230 |
| Publication date | 1993-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/44.2.213 |
| OpenAlex | W2080313482 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Using the Kochen–Specker contradiction, I prove that ‘local realistic’ theories predict nontrivial violations of the quantum mechanical EPR-type perfect anticorrelations. The proof invokes the same stochastic local realism conditions used in Bell arguments. For a class of theories called ‘orthodox spin theories’, the perfect anticorrelations used in the proof emerge from rotational symmetry. Therefore, an orthodox spin theorist must abandon either the spirit of relativity, as encoded by local realism, or the letter of relativity, which demands rotational invariance.
Classical mechanics · Contradiction · Epistemology · EPR paradox · Physics · Quantum · Quantum entanglement · Quantum mechanics · Quantum nonlocality · Realism · Symmetry (geometry) · Theoretical physics · Theory of relativity · Mathematics · Philosophy · Quantum Information and Cryptography · Quantum Mechanics and Applications · Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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