Generalization of the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger algebraic proof of nonlocality
- Cambridge Univ., (United Kingdom)
The authors further develop a recent new proof (by Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger - GHZ) that local deterministic hidden-variable theories are inconsistent with certain strict correlations predicted by quantum mechanics. First, they generalize GHZ's proof so that it applied to factorable stochastic theories in which apparatus hidden variables are casually relevant to measurement results, and theories in which the hidden variables evolve indeterministically prior to the particle-apparatus interactions. Then they adopt a more general measure-theoretic approach which requires that GHZ's argument be modified in order to produce a valid proof. Finally, they motivate the more general proof's assumptions in a somewhat different way from previous authors in order to strengthen the implications of the proof as much as possible. After developing GHZ's proof along these lines, they then consider the analogue, for their proof, of Bohr's reply to the EPR argument, and conclude (pace GHZ) that in at least one respect (viz, that of most concern to Bohr) the proof is no more powerful than Bell's. Nevertheless, they point out some new advantages of their proof over Bell's, and over other algebraic proofs of nonlocality. And they conclude by giving a modified version of their proof that, like Bell's does not rely on experimentally unrealizable strict correlations, but still leads to a testable quasi-algebraic locality inequality.
- OSTI ID:
- 5616239
- Journal Information:
- Foundations of Physics; (United States), Vol. 21:2; ISSN 0015-9018
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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