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View SchemaAction and Passion at a Distance: An Essay in Honor of Professor Abner Shimony
| Authors | Sandu Popescu, Daniel Rohrlich |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9605004 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605004 |
Abstract
Quantum mechanics permits nonlocality---both nonlocal correlations and nonlocal equations of motion---while respecting relativistic causality. Is quantum mechanics the unique theory that reconciles nonlocality and causality? We consider two models, going beyond quantum mechanics, of nonlocality---``superquantum" correlations, and nonlocal ``jamming" of correlations---and derive new results for the jamming model. In one space dimension, jamming allows reversal of the sequence of cause and effect; in higher dimensions, however, effect never precedes cause.
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