Action and Passion at a Distance: An Essay in Honor of Professor Abner Shimony

@misc{citeulike:667735, abstract = {Quantum mechanics permits nonlocality---both nonlocal correlations and nonlocal equations of motion---while respecting relativistic causality. Is quantum mechanics the unique theory that reconciles nonlocality and causality? We consider two models, going beyond quantum mechanics, of nonlocality---``superquantum" correlations, and nonlocal ``jamming" of correlations---and derive new results for the jamming model. In one space dimension, jamming allows reversal of the sequence of cause and effect; in higher dimensions, however, effect never precedes cause.}, author = {Popescu, Sandu and Rohrlich, Daniel }, citeulike-article-id = {667735}, eprint = {quant-ph/9605004}, keywords = {interpretation, quantum}, month = {May}, posted-at = {2006-05-24 08:57:08}, priority = {2}, title = {Action and Passion at a Distance: An Essay in Honor of Professor Abner Shimony}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605004}, year = {1996} }

TY - ELEC ID - citeulike:667735 L3 - citeulike-article-id:667735 TI - Action and Passion at a Distance: An Essay in Honor of Professor Abner Shimony N2 - Quantum mechanics permits nonlocality---both nonlocal correlations and nonlocal equations of motion---while respecting relativistic causality. Is quantum mechanics the unique theory that reconciles nonlocality and causality? We consider two models, going beyond quantum mechanics, of nonlocality---``superquantum" correlations, and nonlocal ``jamming" of correlations---and derive new results for the jamming model. In one space dimension, jamming allows reversal of the sequence of cause and effect; in higher dimensions, however, effect never precedes cause. KW - interpretation KW - quantum AU - Popescu, Sandu AU - Rohrlich, Daniel PY - 1996/May/03/ UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9605004 ER -