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相关性是怎么来的?

How come the Correlations?

Nicolas Gisin

摘要:

在相对论中,时空是存在的。在量子力学中有纠缠。纠缠通过在任何两个时空位置产生经典事件(例如某些探测器的发射)之间的相关性来表现自己。如果这些位置是类时间分离的,即一个在另一个的未来,那么理解这些相关性就没有特别的困难。但如果这两个位置像空间一样分开,问题就不同了。如果没有任何形式的通信,两个时空位置如何知道彼此发生了什么?如果时空真的存在,这些位置一定会做一些像通信这样的事情。或者这一切都是在一开始就安排好的。但是,相关性也取决于实验者的自由选择,每个时空位置都有一个。这使得约翰·贝尔能够推导出他的不等式,而实验主义者则违反了不等式,从而驳斥了一开始就成立的假设:相关性不能用共同的原因来解释。

英文摘要:

In relativity there is space-time out there. In quantum mechanics there is entanglement. Entanglement manifests itself by producing correlations between classical events (e.g. the firing of some detectors) at any two space-time locations. If the locations are time-like separated, i.e. one is in the future of the other, then there is no specific difficulty to understand the correlations. But if the two locations are space-like separated, the problem is different. How can the two space-time locations out there know about what happens in each other without any sort of communication? If space-time really exists, the locations must do something like communicating. Or it was all set up at the Beginning. But the correlations depend also on the free choice of the experimentalists, one in each space-time location. This allowed John Bell to derive his inequality and the experimentalists to violate it, thus refuting the assumption that it was all set up at the beginning: the Correlations can't be explained by common causes.

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