2007/07/18 by Eleftherios Gkioulekas
Computer Science · Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Mathematics #Mechanics #Physics #Quantum #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum electrodynamics #Quantum field theory #Quantum fluctuation #Quantum mechanics #Scale (ratio) #Statistical physics #Superluminal motion #Theoretical physics #Turbulence #Upper and lower bounds #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10773-007-9550-8
published as E. Gkioulekas (2008): Int. J. Theor. Phys. 47, 1195-1205 · 7 pages, submitted to Int. J. Theor. Phys
arxiv created 2007/07/18 · openalex publication_date 2007/09/20 · arxiv updated 2010/11/16 · openalex created_date 2020/11/23 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We elaborate further on a hypothesis by Winterberg that turbulent fluctuations of the zero point field may lead to a breakdown of the superluminal quantum correlations over very large distances. A phenomenological model that was proposed by Winterberg to estimate the transition scale of the conjectured breakdown, does not lead to a distance that is large enough to be agreeable with recent experiments. We consider, but rule out, the possibility of a steeper slope in the energy spectrum of the turbulent fluctuations, due to compressibility, as a possible mechanism that may lead to an increased lower-bound for the transition scale. Instead, we argue that Winterberg overestimated the intensity of the ZPF turbulent fluctuations. We calculate a very generous corrected lower bound for the transition distance which is consistent with current experiments.