Imprints of screened dark energy on nonlocal quantum correlations

TL;DR

This paper explores how screening mechanisms in dark energy models affect quantum non-local correlations, proposing a method to test these effects via entangled particles in Earth's gravitational field.

Contribution

It introduces a formalism to evaluate the impact of screened dark energy on quantum correlations, linking modified gravity effects to measurable quantum non-locality violations.

Findings

Screening mechanisms suppress CHSH inequality violations compared to flat space.

Unconstrained parameter regions where screening effects are comparable to GR.

Proof-of-principle for testing dark energy models through quantum non-locality.

Abstract

We investigate how screening mechanisms, reconciling light scalar fields driving cosmic acceleration with local fifth force constraints, can be probed via their impact on non-local quantum correlations between entangled spin pairs, whose evolution on a curved background is affected by General Relativity (GR) and screened modified gravity effects. We consider a gedankenexperiment featuring a pair of massive, spin-1/2 particles orbiting the Earth, evaluating their non-local correlations through spin observables associated to the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality. Using a general formalism developed earlier for curved space-time spin evolution, we compute the effects of screening on the CHSH inequality, finding its degree of violation to be suppressed relative to the flat space-time case. Applying this formalism to the chameleon, symmetron, and dilaton mechanisms, we identify currently unconstrained regions of parameter space where the screening contribution is comparable to that of GR. While detecting these effects will be challenging, our work provides a proof-of-principle for testing screened dark energy through quantum non-locality.