In physics, a hidden-variable theory is a deterministic model which seeks to explain the probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics by introducing additional...

the interpretation of quantum mechanics, a local hidden-variable theory is a hidden-variable theory that satisfies the principle of locality. These models...

yet-unseen or unmeasurable factors Local hidden-variable theory, in quantum mechanics, a hidden-variable theory in which distant events are assumed to have...

Before developing his implicit order approach, Bohm had proposed a hidden variable theory of quantum physics (see Bohm interpretation). According to Bohm...

which determine that quantum mechanics is incompatible with local hidden-variable theories, given some basic assumptions about the nature of measurement....

theoretical physics, the pilot wave theory, also known as Bohmian mechanics, was the first known example of a hidden-variable theory, presented by Louis de Broglie...

them, the assumptions of the theorem are no longer fulfilled. A hidden variables theory which is superdeterministic can thus fulfill Bell's notion of local...

were not part of quantum theory, and speculated that it should be possible to construct a theory containing these hidden variables. Resolutions of the paradox...

deterministic. The de Broglie–Bohm theory is an example of a hidden-variables theory. Bohm originally hoped that hidden variables could provide a local, causal...

entanglement in quantum mechanics cannot be reproduced by local hidden-variable theories. Experimental verification of the inequality being violated is...

quantum theory—with local hidden variables to explain the correlations between spatially separated particles as predicted by quantum theory. Bell established...

nonexistence of a local hidden-variable model, such as whether states can be distinguished by local measurements. Moreover, quantum field theory is often said to...

1967. It places certain constraints on the permissible types of hidden-variable theories, which try to explain the predictions of quantum mechanics in a...

Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden-variable theories. In 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Alain Aspect...

to that question of "hidden variables" was "yes". By contrast, Max Jammer writes "Einstein never proposed a hidden variable theory." Einstein explored...

decoherence interpretations, the Copenhagen interpretation, and hidden variable theories such as Bohmian mechanics. The many-worlds interpretation implies...

the presence of some additional local variables (called "hidden" because they are not a feature of quantum theory) to explain the behavior of particles...

demonstrate how quantum mechanics cannot be explained using a local hidden variable theory. In this way Mermin's device is a pedagogical tool to introduce...

the usual uncertainty principle constraint. The theory is considered to be a hidden-variable theory, and by embracing non-locality it satisfies Bell's...

predictions of quantum mechanics with local hidden variable theories and noncontextual hidden variable theories. Similarly, the PBR theorem could be said...

theory. He initially called his approach a hidden variable theory, but he later called it ontological theory, reflecting his view that a stochastic process...

experiments that directly contradict predictions by every classical local hidden-variable theory. The state has applications in quantum computing. The four-particle...

discrimination between quantum mechanics and local realism or local hidden-variable theory. Quantum correlations give rise to various phenomena, including...

local hidden variable theories, Bohm's theory was not ruled out. A 2007 experiment ruled out a large class of non-Bohmian non-local hidden variable theories...

significant for the role it played in showing that wide classes of hidden-variable theories are inconsistent with quantum physics. Multiple variations have...

necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a local hidden-variable theory, given data from any specific set of measurements. Generalizations...

violates Bell inequalities (i.e., it cannot be described by a local hidden-variable theory), a natural question to ask is how large can the violation be. The...

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of the hidden variable x(t) at time t, given the values of the hidden variable x at all times, depends only on the value of the hidden variable x(t − 1);...

is not a complete theory, and that by adding more structure we could arrive at a universal description (the troubled hidden variables approach). Yet another...