Nature Communications (Aug 2019)

Bell’s theorem for temporal order

  • Magdalena Zych,
  • Fabio Costa,
  • Igor Pikovski,
  • Časlav Brukner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11579-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Time has a fundamentally different character in quantum mechanics and in general relativity. Here, the authors consider a thought experiment where a massive body in a spatial superposition leads to entanglement of temporal orders between time-like events, resulting in a violation of a Bell-type inequality.