Quantum Correlations with Spacelike Separated Beam Splitters in Motion: Experimental Test of Multisimultaneity

André Stefanov, Hugo Zbinden, Nicolas Gisin, and Antoine Suarez
Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 120404 – Published 7 March 2002
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Abstract

Multisimultaneity is a causal model of relativistic quantum physics which assigns a real time ordering to any set of events, much in the spirit of the pilot-wave picture. Contrary to standard quantum mechanics, it predicts a disappearance of the correlations in a Bell-type experiment when both analyzers are in relative motion such that each one, in its own inertial reference frame, is first to select the output of the photons. We tested this prediction using acousto-optic modulators as moving beam splitters and interferometers separated by 55 m. We did not observe any disappearance of the correlations, in agreement with quantum mechanics.

  • Received 22 October 2001

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.120404

©2002 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

André Stefanov, Hugo Zbinden, and Nicolas Gisin

  • Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

Antoine Suarez

  • Center for Quantum Philosophy, P.O. Box 304, CH-8044 Zurich, Switzerland

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Vol. 88, Iss. 12 — 25 March 2002

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