Collapse of the state vector and nonlocal correlations in quantum mechanics

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates how quantum mechanics can explain state vector collapse and nonlocal correlations without nonlinearities, clarifying measurement outcomes and Bell inequality violations.

Contribution

It provides a framework for deriving subsystem state vectors from entangled states, elucidating measurement outcomes and correlations within standard quantum theory.

Findings

Quantum state vectors can be obtained for measurements on separated subsystems.

The theory explains the mechanism behind measurement outcomes and nonlocal correlations.

Quantum correlations violating Bell's inequality are consistent with classical measurement readouts.

Abstract

It is shown how to obtain state vectors associated with measurements on the separated subystems of an entangled state, revealing how a single wavefunction encodes a set of statistical measurement outcomes. The result explains why measurements on the subsystems give definite outcomes and why measurements on one subsystem are correlated with those on the other. It is therefore concluded that the theory of quantum mechanics, without nonlinearities or \emph{ad hoc} assertions, can explain both the mechanism of state vector collapse and the reason for the paradoxical nonlocal correlations between separated subsystems.The theory also explains how quantum correlations, including correlations that violate Bell's inequality, are read out by classical measurements.