From locality to factorizability: a novel escape from Bell's theorem

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05162v1
• Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 14:50:34 GMT
• Title: From locality to factorizability: a novel escape from Bell's theorem
• Authors: G. S. Ciepielewski and E. Okon
• Abstract summary: Bell argued that factorizability could be derived from the more fundamental principle of local causality. We show that, contrary to what is commonly assumed, in order to derive factorizability from the principle of local causality, a non-trivial assumption, similar but strictly independent of settings independence, is required. We conclude that it is possible to construct a model, satisfying both the principle of local causality and settings independence, but that, in virtue of violating this additional assumption--and thus factorizability--is able to break Bell's inequality.
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• Abstract: While initial versions of Bell's theorem captured the notion of locality with the assumption of factorizability, in later presentations, Bell argued that factorizability could be derived from the more fundamental principle of local causality. Here we show that, contrary to what is commonly assumed, in order to derive factorizability from the principle of local causality, a non-trivial assumption, similar but strictly independent of settings independence, is required. Loosely speaking, such an extra assumption demands independence between the states of the measurement apparatuses. We conclude that it is possible to construct a model, satisfying both the principle of local causality and settings independence, but that, in virtue of violating this additional assumption--and thus factorizability--is able to break Bell's inequality.

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