Nonlocal character of quantum theory?

American Journal of Physics

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 920-924

  David Mermin, N ^a  

^a Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics and Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering   (United States)

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EID: 0346096781     PISSN: 00029505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1119/1.18990     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Henry P. Stapp, "Nonlocal character of quantum theory," Am. J. Phys. 65, 300-304 (1997).
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5. For another critical analysis of Stapp's argument see W. Unruh, "Is quantum mechanics non-local?" Los Alamos e-Print archive, http://xxx. lanl.gov/abs/quant-ph 9710032. Stapp replies in quant-ph 9712043. My interest here is primarily in the remarkable way Bohr's critique of EPR is clarified by applying it to Stapp's argument. The present exchange of views with Stapp on this question grew out of our earlier formulations in quant-ph 9711052, 9711060, 9712003, and 9712036.
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11. See for example John S. Bell, "Bertlmann's socks and the nature of reality," in Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Mechanics (Cambridge U.P., Cambridge, 1987), Appendix 1, pp. 155-156. For a thoughtful critique of Bell's statements about Bohr's views, see Arkady Plotnitsky, Complementarity (Duke U.P., Durham, NC, 1994), pp. 172-190.
12. Niels Bohr, "Quantum mechanics and physical reality," Nature (London) 136, 65 (1935).