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arXiv:1105.4326quant-ph

Testing super-deterministic hidden variables theories

Sabine Hossenfelder

Abstract

We propose to experimentally test non-deterministic time evolution in quantum mechanics by consecutive measurements of non-commuting observables on the same prepared state. While in the standard theory the measurement outcomes are uncorrelated, in a super-deterministic hidden variables theory the measurements would be correlated. We estimate that for macroscopic experiments the correlation time is too short to have been noticed yet, but that it may be possible with a suitably designed microscopic experiment to reach a parameter range where one would expect a super-deterministic modification of quantum mechanics to become relevant.

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12 pages, 2 figures, to be published in Foundations of Physics
Journal reference
Found.Phys.41:1521-1531,2011
DOI
doi:10.1007/s10701-011-9565-0
Subjects
quant-phQuantum Physics gr-qcGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

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  1. Superdeterminism may help us overcome the current crisis in physics 1 comment

    • Hossenfelder proposes[1] to measure non-commuting variables in identical systems in as noise-free an environment as possible. In standard QM says the measurements should be completely uncorrelated, but she argues that in a superdeterministic theory results somewhat correlated.…

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  2. Superdeterminism: The path we didn’t take 1 comment

    • Argh. Reading the announced paper on arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.06462 In the introduction: "Most importantly, we will discuss how it may be possible to test this hypothesis in an (almost) model independent way." Most. Importantly. Then in the paper, under "Experimental…

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