The Notion of Locality in Relational Quantum Mechanics
Abstract
The term 'locality' is used in different contexts with different meanings. There have been claims that relational quantum mechanics is local, but it is not clear then how it accounts for the effects that go under the usual name of quantum non-locality. The present article shows that the failure of 'locality' in the sense of Bell, once interpreted in the relational framework, reduces to the existence of a common cause in an indeterministic context. In particular, there is no need to appeal to a mysterious space-like influence to understand it.
- Publication:
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Foundations of Physics
- Pub Date:
- February 2019
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1806.08150
- Bibcode:
- 2019FoPh...49...96M
- Keywords:
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- Non-locality;
- Locality;
- Relational quantum mechanics;
- EPR pairs;
- Local causality;
- Bell's theorem;
- Quantum Physics;
- Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics
- E-Print:
- 6 pages, 2 figures