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arxiv: 1705.06199 · v1 · pith:75K4TRDFnew · submitted 2017-05-17 · ✦ hep-th · gr-qc· quant-ph

Infinite violation of Bell inequalities in inflation

classification ✦ hep-th gr-qcquant-ph
keywords inequalitiesviolationquantumscalarbellexponentiallyfieldsfind
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We study the violation of Bell-Mermin-Klyshko (BMK) inequalities in initial quantum states of scalar fields in inflation. We show that the Bell inequality is maximally violated by the Bunch-Davies vacuum which is a two-mode squeezed state of a scalar field. However, we find that the violation of the BMK inequalities does not increase with the number of modes to measure. We then consider a non-Bunch-Davies vacuum expressed by a four-mode squeezed state of two scalar fields. Remarkably, we find that the violation of the BMK inequalities increases exponentially with the number of modes to measure. This indicates that some evidence that our universe has a quantum mechanical origin may survive in CMB data even if quantum entanglement decays exponentially afterward due to decoherence.

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