1. Quantum Locality, Rings a Bell?: Bell's Inequality Meets Local Reality and True Determinism.
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Sánchez-Kuntz, Natalia and Nahmad-Achar, Eduardo
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REALITY , *DETERMINISM (Philosophy) , *QUANTUM mechanics , *QUANTUM states , *SUPERPOSITION principle (Physics) - Abstract
By assuming a deterministic evolution of quantum systems and taking realism into account, we carefully build a hidden variable theory for Quantum Mechanics (QM) based on the notion of ontological states proposed by 't Hooft (The cellular automaton interpretation of quantum mechanics, , 2015; Springer Open 185, , 2016). We view these ontological states as the ones embedded with realism and compare them to the (usual) quantum states that represent superpositions, viewing the latter as mere information of the system they describe. Such a deterministic model puts forward conditions for the applicability of Bell's inequality: the usual inequality cannot be applied to the usual experiments. We build a Bell-like inequality that can be applied to the EPR scenario and show that this inequality is always satisfied by QM. In this way we show that QM can indeed have a local interpretation, and thus meet with the causal structure imposed by the Theory of Special Relativity in a satisfying way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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