Collapse of the state vector and nonlocal correlations in quantum mechanics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.21243v1
• Date: Wed, 20 May 2026 14:32:43 GMT
• Title: Collapse of the state vector and nonlocal correlations in quantum mechanics
• Abstract summary: It is shown how to obtain state vectors associated with measurements on the separated subystems of an entangled state.<n>The result explains why measurements on the subsystems give definite outcomes and why measurements on one subsystem are correlated with those on the other.
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• Abstract: It is shown how to obtain state vectors associated with measurements on the separated subystems of an entangled state, revealing how a single wavefunction encodes a set of statistical measurement outcomes. The result explains why measurements on the subsystems give definite outcomes and why measurements on one subsystem are correlated with those on the other. It is therefore concluded that the theory of quantum mechanics, without nonlinearities or \emph{ad hoc} assertions, can explain both the mechanism of state vector collapse and the reason for the paradoxical nonlocal correlations between separated subsystems.The theory also explains how quantum correlations, including correlations that violate Bell's inequality, are read out by classical measurements.

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