Innsbruck Teleportation Experiment in the Wigner Formalism: A Realistic Description Based on the Role of the Zero-Point Field

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In this article, an undulatory description of the Innsbruck teleportation experiment is given, grounded in the role of the zero-point field (ZPF). The Wigner approach in the Heisenberg picture is used, so that the quadruple correlations of the field, along with the subtraction of the zero-point intensity at the detectors, are shown to be the essential ingredients that replace entanglement and collapse. This study contrasts sharply with the standard particle-like analysis and offers the possibility of understanding the hidden mechanism of teleportation, relying on vacuum amplitudes as hidden variables.

Keywords

• teleportation
• parametric downconversion
• Wigner representation
• local realism
• zero-point field
• Bell state measurement