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View SchemaSignal-Locality in Hidden-Variables Theories
| Authors | Antony Valentini |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0106098 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0106098 |
| DOI | 10.1016/S0375-9601(02)00438-3 |
| Journal | Phys. Lett. A 297 (2002) 273-278 |
Abstract
We prove that all deterministic hidden-variables theories, that reproduce quantum theory for a 'quantum equilibrium' distribution of hidden variables, predict the existence of instantaneous signals at the statistical level for hypothetical 'nonequilibrium ensembles'. This signal-locality theorem generalises yet another property of the pilot-wave theory of de Broglie and Bohm. The theorem supports the hypothesis that in the remote past the universe relaxed to a state of statistical equilibrium (at the hidden-variable level) in which nonlocality happens to be masked by quantum noise.
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