nonlocality
Noun
Meaning
nonlocality (countable and uncountable, plural nonlocalities)
The condition of being nonlocal
Examples
" Alfred Driessen, Antoine Suarez, Mathematical undecidability, quantum nonlocality, and the question of the existence of God (1997).
In 2013, Dürr et al. suggested that the required foliation could be covariantly determined by the wave function. citation The relation between nonlocality and preferred foliation can be better understood as follows.
In de Broglie–Bohm theory, nonlocality manifests as the fact that the velocity and acceleration of one particle depends on the instantaneous positions of all other particles.
Indeed, both experiments and theory show that entangled particles at some distance exhibit statistical correlations that cannot be explained in classical terms except by some kind of instantaneous effect; that is what is meant by "quantum nonlocality".
Quantum nonlocality (and in particular the phenomenon of quantum entanglement ) is often proposed as another mechanism for superluminal communication.
The orientation of the measuring apparatus can be changed while the particles are in flight, demonstrating the apparent nonlocality of the effect.