Common causes for quantum identical particles

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21768v1
• Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:33:42 GMT
• Title: Common causes for quantum identical particles
• Abstract summary: Violations of Bell's inequalities imply that joint probabilities generated by non-commutative measurements on two (non-identical) quantum particles do not have a single common cause.<n>But joint probabilities generated for such non-identical particles via commutative measurements do have non-trivial common cause variables.
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• Abstract: Violations of Bell's inequalities imply that joint probabilities generated by non-commutative measurements on two (non-identical) quantum particles do not have a single common cause. But joint probabilities generated for such non-identical particles via commutative measurements do have non-trivial common cause variables. We focus on commutative measurements and consider two identical quantum particles, whose density matrices and observables (hermitian operators) are necessarily permutation-symmetric. It is natural to demand that the common cause describing joint probabilities is also permutation symmetric, i.e., it acts symmetrically on both particles. Looking at various ways of defining joint probabilities from the same measurement data, we conclude that either symmetric common causes need not exist (i.e., that the particles can be hiddenly distinguishable), or that symmetric screening variables exist, but they are trivial, i.e., no single common cause can explain all single-measurement correlations.

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