TITLE:
Vacuum Correlations, Detector Efficiency Fluctuations and Classical Dynamic Violations of CH-Inequality
AUTHORS:
Gianpaolo Bei
KEYWORDS:
Electric Vacuum Correlations, Dark Counts, Detector Efficiency Fluctuations, Detector Thermal Emission, Temperature Dependent CH-Inequality
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Applied Mathematics and Physics,
Vol.11 No.6,
June
29,
2023
ABSTRACT: We study in this paper the possible influence of vacuum fluctuations on photo detection and its background noise in Bell tests. We analyze its consequences on the standard statistical analysis of data showing that it is not fulfilled anymore the conventional hypothesis of a Poisson like probability density distribution of single photodetection events. We assume that vacuum fluctuations are due to real and measurable fluctuating fields, as recently confirmed experimentally, and that their non null correlations outside the light cone contribute to photon coincidence rates making them time dependent. We introduce a generalized Bell like correlation function which contains a new term due to supposed vacuum induced photon counting events. We deduce then a generalization of CH-inequality which takes in account the effect of these vacuum electric fields on detector efficiency. We predict an apparatus temperature fluctuations during photon detection which we suggest could be observed by looking for colored noise thermal emission of the photodetectors, generalizing the standard white noise prediction of C.S.L. models on wave function collapse postulate. We discuss an experimental test of this prediction, based on the idea of inducing a thermal wave on the whole quantum detectors, aimed to observe time dependent deviations from standard stationary statistical predictions of Quantum Mechanics.