Discovery of the Solution to the "Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox"

TL;DR

This paper identifies the root cause of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in quantum physics, providing a resolution to a long-standing conceptual issue by analyzing the original reasoning chain.

Contribution

It offers a novel analysis pinpointing the origin of the EPR paradox and resolves it, advancing understanding of quantum correlations and their foundational implications.

Findings

Resolved the EPR paradox by analyzing its logical origin

Clarified the nature of quantum correlations in the paradox

Provided insights into the foundations of quantum mechanics

Abstract

In 1935, Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen (EPR) published a thought experiment that is entirely correct, has been demonstrated in real experiments, and is now the most famous in quantum physics. Their pioneering work described, for the first time, quantum correlations and can be regarded as a very early glimpse into today's 'deep' quantum technologies, by which I mean those that enhance functionality by making use of quantum correlations. However, their work also contains a paradox that Erwin Schroedinger had already recognised as such in 1935 and which has since been cemented by the so-called Bell experiments. Here, I am now able to pinpoint the origin of the paradox within the chain of reasoning, which ultimately resolves the paradox.