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Quantum Entanglement Beyond Kinematics: A Dynamical Hypothesis in (3,2)-Dimensional Spacetime

26 Feb 2026, 14:30
25m
Lecture hall 5

Lecture hall 5

Department of Physical Sciences, Earth and Environment - University of Siena Physics Section, Via Roma 56, Siena Siena

Speaker

Prof. Marco Pettini

Description

Quantum entanglement exhibits nonlocal correlations that lack a known local dynamical explanation. While standard quantum theory predicts these correlations with high accuracy, it does not specify \emph{how} they are mediated between distant systems. Building on our previous work of Ref.~\cite{PRR} proposing an underlying process in an extended spacetime with an additional timelike coordinate, we develop a concrete, constraint-driven construction. Motivated by the fact that finite-velocity ``hidden-influence'' models generically conflict with no-signaling in multipartite settings, we show first that warped geometry with a single extra \emph{spatial} dimension forbids any effective superluminal "shortcut". We then formulate a warped $(3,2)$-dimensional framework and identify conditions for consistency with the higher-dimensional equations of General Relativity and for operational causality on the brane, implemented by restricting to a physically admissible sector and defining the brane response through a $t$-retarded Green function. In this background we introduce a massless information-carrying bulk field ${\mathscr{X}}_a({\bf x}, t, \tau)$ sourced on the $\tau=0$ brane. The warping permits null bulk characteristics whose brane projection can have vanishing brane-time separation in the correlation sector, while the retarded response prescription forbids controllable signaling. We embed the mechanism in a Bohm-Bub-type nonlinear collapse dynamics via brane-evaluated projections of ${\mathscr{X}}_a({\bf x}, t, \tau)$, outline how Born statistics may arise from averaging over contextual microstates, and discuss qualitative experimental signatures, including simultaneous Bell-test configurations sensitive to cross-pair contextual couplings absent in standard quantum mechanics.

Author

Prof. Marco Pettini

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