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Outcome determinism means that a complete hidden state , together with the chosen measurement settings, fixes each outcome. The observed probabilities can still arise from an ensemble of unknown . This differs from deterministic unitary evolution of a wavefunction, which does not by itself specify a unique measurement outcome. Quantum nonlocality means failure of a Bell-local account of the correlations, under assumptions including measurement independence; it is stronger than the existence of entanglement and does not imply controllable faster-than-light signaling.
Use the first ket for the Positron and the second for the electron. Before either final beam splitter, the first pair of splitters and annihilation produceThe photon state is orthogonal to the surviving charged-particle sector. Its probability is , while the remaining sector has squared norm . The states below retain that photon amplitude and are normalized over all trials, without conditioning on nonannihilation. For compactness write , and similarly for .
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