In search of superluminal quantum communications: recent experiments and possible improvements

TL;DR

This paper reviews experiments testing superluminal quantum communication hypotheses and proposes an improved experiment to explore higher tachyon velocities, aiming to challenge or confirm the non-locality of quantum mechanics.

Contribution

It introduces an enhanced experimental setup to better test for superluminal signals in quantum entanglement, expanding the range of detectable tachyon velocities.

Findings

Previous experiments set lower bounds on tachyon velocities.

No discrepancy found between quantum predictions and experiments.

Proposed improvements aim to explore larger tachyon velocity ranges.

Abstract

As shown in the famous \emph{EPR} paper (Einstein, Podolsky e Rosen,1935), Quantum Mechanics is non-local. The Bell theorem and the experiments by Aspect and many others, ruled out the possibility of explaining quantum correlations between entangled particles using local hidden variables models (except for implausible combinations of loopholes). Some authors (Bell, Eberhard, Bohm and Hiley) suggested that quantum correlations could be due to superluminal communications (tachyons) that propagate isotropically with velocity \emph{$v_{t}>c$} in a preferred reference frame. For finite values of \emph{$v_{t}$}, Quantum Mechanics and superluminal models lead to different predictions. Some years ago a Geneva group and our group did experiments on entangled photons to evidence possible discrepancies between experimental results and quantum predictions. Since no discrepancy was found, these experiments established only lower bounds for the possible tachyon velocities \emph{$v_{t}$}. Here we propose an improved experiment that should lead us to explore a much larger range of possible tachyon velocities \emph{$v_{t}$} for any possible direction of velocity $\vec{V}$ of the tachyons preferred frame.