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Ghenadie N. Mardari

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Quantum Correlations in Classical Systems

A classical fluid splitter produces the same patterns of energy redistribution as a Stern-Gerlach quantum device, with rotationally invariant coefficients of correlation between molecular paths. Alternative settings express a cosine squared relationship, leading to Tsirelson-type Bell violations with outcome independence. This result confirms the Correspondence Principle of quantum mechanics, where individual detection events express system-level properties according to Born's Rule. Kochen-Specker contextuality and Bell Locality are not formally contradicted, but their interpretation is in question. Current definitions of Local Realism are limited to intrinsic particle properties. In contrast, quantum-like correlations require the acknowledgement of ensemble effects on dynamically inseparable entities, even when those entities are observed one at a time.

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Quantum Monogamy with Predetermined Events

The concept of correlation appears straightforward: measurement outcomes coincide, and patterns emerge. For any record of events, the coefficients are uniquely determined. Thus, if correlations change spontaneously, as seen in quantum monogamy, then individual behavior must have changed first. Surprisingly, this is not always true. When two observables are mutually exclusive, they cannot coincide objectively and need to be grouped across time. Yet, sectioning the flow of events into "iterations" is not trivial in this case. Even with blind windows of coincidence, the same order of outcomes can produce different coefficients of correlation, depending on the number of joint measurements. Therefore, quantum monogamy can happen with fixed pre-determined events. A new concept ("subjective correlation") is required to explain this phenomenon.

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Does quantum mechanics violate Bell's inequality?

The EPR paradox is known as an interpretive problem, as well as a technical discovery in quantum mechanics. It defined the basic features of two-quantum entanglement, as needed to study the relationships between two non-commuting variables. In contrast, four variables are observed in a typical Bell experiment. This is no longer the same problem. The full complexity of this process can only be captured by the analysis of four-quantum entanglement. Indeed, a new paradox emerges in this context, with straightforward consequences. Quantum mechanics cannot violate CHSH-type inequalities, in the same sense in which local realism cannot do it. The solution is to assume that quantum correlations do not work at the level of full populations, when violations occur, but only apply to incompatible slices of input beams.

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Overcoming the EPR paradox

Quantum experiments detect particles, but they reveal information about wave properties. No matter how quanta are detected, they always express the local net state of the corresponding wave-function. The mechanism behind this process is still a mystery. However, quantum wave-functions evolve like classical waves. If they determine all the observations, why do they entail "weird" phenomena? In particular, why do they produce conceptual problems, such as the EPR paradox? It turns out that all the major interpretations in quantum mechanics are particle-based ontologies. Variables of fundamental interest, such as momentum and position, are assumed to reflect the input states of discrete entities, even when their evolution is predicted by wave equations. Here I show that a whole class of microscopic phenomena, including entanglement, can be interpreted without contradictions if the variables of quantum mechanics are actually treated as wave properties. The main recommendation is to assume that sharp spectral states are transient outcomes of superposition, rather than permanent input components.

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Classical sources of non-classical physics: the case of linear superposition

Classical linear wave superposition produces the appearance of interference. This observation can be interpreted in two equivalent ways: one can assume that interference is an illusion because input components remain unperturbed, or that interference is real and input components undergo energy redistribution. Both interpretations entail the same observable consequences at the macroscopic level, but the first approach is considerably more popular. This preference was established before the emergence of quantum mechanics. Unfortunately, it requires a non-classical underlying mechanism and fails to explain well-known microscopic observations. Classical physics appears to collapse at the quantum level. On the other hand, quantum superposition can be described as a classical process if the second alternative is adopted. The gap between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics is an interpretive problem.

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Interpreting Negative Probabilities in the Context of Double-Slit Interferometry

Negative probabilities emerged at intermediate steps in various attempts to predict the distributions of quantum interference. There is no consensus on their meaning yet. It has been suggested (Khrennikov, 1998) that negative probabilities require the existence of unsuspected correlations between detection events.We evaluate this claim in light of several representative experiments. In our assessment, some of its implications are in good agreement with the data.

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What is a quantum really like?

The hypothesis of quantum self-interference is not directly observable, but has at least three necessary implications. First, a quantum entity must have no less than two open paths. Second, the size of the interval between any two consecutive quanta must be irrelevant. Third, which-path information must not be available to any observer. All of these predictions have been tested and found to be false. A similar demonstration is provided for the hypothesis of quantum erasure. In contrast, if quanta are treated as real particles, acting as sources of real waves, then all types of interference can be explained with a single causal mechanism, without logical or experimental inconsistencies.

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Interferometric evidence for brane world cosmologies

The hypothesis of brane-embedded matter appears to gain increasing credibility in astrophysics. However, it can only be truly successful if its implications on particle interaction are consistent with existing knowledge. This letter focuses on the issue of optical interference, and shows that at least one brane-world model can offer plausible interpretations for both Young's double-slit experiment, and the experiments that fit less neatly with it. The basic assumption is that particles can interact at a distance through the vibrations induced by their motion on the brane. The qualitative analysis of this mechanism suggests that fringe visibility in single photon interference depends on the energy levels and the interval between interacting particles. A double-slit experiment, performed with coherent single red photons should reveal the disappearance of interference when the time delay between individual particles is increased over 2.18 seconds. In the case of infrared photons with the frequency of $9\cdot 10^{13}$ Hz, interference must vanish already at the interval of one second.

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