Local de Broglie-Bohm Trajectories from Entangled Wavefunctions
| dc.creator | Clover, Michael | |
| dc.date | 2007-04-05 | |
| dc.date | 2007-06-27 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T08:12:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T08:12:21Z | |
| dc.description | We present a local interpretation of what is usually considered to be a nonlocal de Broglie-Bohm trajectory prescription for an entangled singlet state of massive particles. After reviewing various meanings of the term ``nonlocal'', we show that by using appropriately retarded wavefunctions (i.e., the locality loophole) this local model can violate Bell's inequality, without making any appeal to detector inefficiencies. We analyze a possible experimental configuration appropriate to massive two-particle singlet wavefunctions and find that as long as the particles are not ultra-relativistic, a locality loophole exists and Dirac wave(s) can propagate from Alice or Bob's changing magnetic field, through space, to the other detector, arriving before the particle and thereby allowing a local interpretation to the 2-particle de Broglie-Bohm trajectories. We also propose a physical effect due to changing magnetic fields in a Stern-Gerlach EPR setup that will throw away events and create a detector loophole in otherwise perfectly efficient detectors, an effect that is only significant for near-luminal particles that might otherwise close the locality loophole. | |
| dc.description | 11 pages, no figures v2: fix minor grammatical infelicities, added some references | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0766 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.0766 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/132425 | |
| dc.subject | Quantum Physics | |
| dc.title | Local de Broglie-Bohm Trajectories from Entangled Wavefunctions | |
| dc.type | text |