Imprints of screened dark energy on nonlocal quantum correlations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18448v4
• Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:53:30 GMT
• Title: Imprints of screened dark energy on nonlocal quantum correlations
• Authors: Fabiano Feleppa, Gaetano Lambiase, Sunny Vagnozzi,
• Abstract summary: We investigate how screening mechanisms, reconciling light scalar fields driving cosmic acceleration with local fifth force constraints, can be probed.<n>We consider a gedankenexperiment featuring a pair of massive, spin-1/2 particles orbiting the Earth.<n>Using a general formalism developed earlier for curved space-time spin evolution, we compute the effects of screening on the CHSH inequality.
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• Abstract: We investigate how screening mechanisms, reconciling light scalar fields driving cosmic acceleration with local fifth force constraints, can be probed via their impact on non-local quantum correlations between entangled spin pairs, whose evolution on a curved background is affected by General Relativity (GR) and screened modified gravity effects. We consider a gedankenexperiment featuring a pair of massive, spin-1/2 particles orbiting the Earth, evaluating their non-local correlations through spin observables associated to the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality. Using a general formalism developed earlier for curved space-time spin evolution, we compute the effects of screening on the CHSH inequality, finding its degree of violation to be suppressed relative to the flat space-time case. Applying this formalism to the chameleon, symmetron, and dilaton mechanisms, we identify currently unconstrained regions of parameter space where the screening contribution is comparable to that of GR. While detecting these effects will be challenging, our work provides a proof-of-principle for testing screened dark energy through quantum non-locality.

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