Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Locality and Bell's Theorem

  • Published:
Foundations of Physics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

It is shown that the violation of Bell's inequality allowed by quantum mechanics and the related Bell's theorem without inequalities is accounted for by local commutations of operators representing single-particle observables. It is argued that the idea of nonlocal influencing of one particle on another when they are in spacelike separated regions clearly has neither empirical nor theoretical support.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

REFERENCES

  1. J. S. Bell, Physics 1, 195 (1964).

    Google Scholar 

  2. D. M. Greenberger, M. Horne, and A. Zeilinger, In Bell's Theorem, Quantum Theory, and Conceptions of the Universe, M. Kafatos, ed. (Kluwer, Dordrecht, 1989), p. 69; D. M. Greenberger, M. Horne, A. Shimony, and A. Zeilinger, Am. J. Phys. 58, 1131 (1990).

    Google Scholar 

  3. A. Einstein, B. Podolsky, and N. Rosen, Phys. Rev. 47, 777 (1935).

    Google Scholar 

  4. G. C. Ghirardi and T. Weber, Lett. Nuovo Cim. 26, 599 (1979; G. C. Ghirardi, A. Rimini, and T. Weber, Lett. Nuovo Cim. 27, 293 (1980).

    Google Scholar 

  5. S. Weinberg, The Quantum Theory of Fields, Vol. I (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995).

    Google Scholar 

  6. D. Fivel,'Implications of an ambiguity in J. S. Bell's analysis of the Einstein\3-Podolsky\3-Rosen problem,' hhttp://www.xxx.lanl.gov/hep-th/9404178.

  7. R. B. Griffiths, Am. J. Phys. 55, 11 (1986).

    Google Scholar 

  8. L. J. Landau, Phys. Lett. A 120, 54 (1987).

    Google Scholar 

  9. B. S. Cirel'son, Lett. Math. Phys. 4, 93 (1980).

    Google Scholar 

  10. D. Fivel, Phys. Rev. Lett. 67, 285 (1991).

    Google Scholar 

  11. N. Herbert, Am. J. Phys. 43, 315 (1975); N. Herbert and J. Karush, Found. Phys. 8, 313 (1978).

    Google Scholar 

  12. T. A. Brody and L. de la Peña Auerbach, Nuovo Cim. 54, 455 (1979).

    Google Scholar 

  13. A. Fine, Phys. Rev. Let. 48, 291 (1982); J. Math. Phys. 23, 1306 (1982).

    Google Scholar 

  14. J. F. Clauser, M. A. Horne, A. Shimony, and R. A. Holt, Phys. Rev. Lett. 23, 880 (1969).

    Google Scholar 

  15. D. Fivel, In D. M. Greenberger and A. Zeilinger, eds.,'Fundamental Problems in Quantum Theory,' Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. V. 755 (1995).

  16. E. Santos, Phys. Lett. A 115, 363 (1986).

    Google Scholar 

  17. M. Revzen, M. Lokajicek, and A. Mann, Quant. Semiclass. Opt. 9, 501 (1997).

    Google Scholar 

  18. A. Chefles and S. M. Barnett, J. Phys. A 29, L 237 (1996).

    Google Scholar 

  19. J. E. G. Farina, Am. J. Phys. 61, 466 (1993).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Authors
  1. W. De Baere
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. A. Mann
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. M. Revzen
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

De Baere, W., Mann, A. & Revzen, M. Locality and Bell's Theorem. Foundations of Physics 29, 67–77 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018865120111

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018865120111

Keywords

Search

Navigation