Abstract
We perform an experimental test where we directly observe light-induced electron transitions with a macroscopic spatial discontinuity. The effect is related to the fundamental indivisibility of macroscopic orbit-like quantum states reminiscent of so-called extended states in the integer quantum Hall system. The test has become realizable due to the discovering of a quantum phase with spontaneous pervasive quantum ordering reminiscent of that of a single atom. The observed transitions may be regarded as a peculiar quantum dynamics beyond relativity, which implies that the current relativistic model of universe should be replaced by a deeper quantum model. It is the Bohm’s model of undivided universe which now should involve a deeper-than-classical concept of absolute simultaneity and a deeper-than-relativistic concept of space and time. Ultimately, our test thus establishes a new hierarchy of fundamental physical theories where the de Broglie-Bohm realistic quantum theory is the deepest theory which does not contradict either classical physics or relativity but rather is beyond both. This is because the fact that quantum theory is dealing with a deeper reality where physical objects are not self-sufficient entities and therefore they can transit discontinuously within an overall quantum system determined by their wavefunctions.
Highlights
Our view of space and time is determined by the laws of spatial dynamics, which follow from this theory
Today, when the Minkowski model remains the basis of our insight of universe for more than a hundred years, the “taboo” on a nonlocal signaling is generally regarded as a God-given thing as it is generally believed that no spatial dynamics may occur beyond relativity
As a starting material to prepare asymmetric integer quantum Hall (IQH) system, we use the so-called GaSb-InAs-GaSb single quantum well structures grown by the method of molecular beam epitaxy (MBE)
Summary
As it follows from the history of science, our view of universe is not unchangeable but determined by the physical theory which is regarded as being the most fundamental in a given historical period. In the frames of this theory, the universe was regarded as a collection of physical bodies that evolve in space and time so that they may influence each other only through the so-called interactions Their spatial dynamics was regarded as being always continuous and it always can be characterized by the notion “speed”. At the beginning of the twentieth century, our view of universe changed drastically as the other physical theory began to be regarded as the most fundamental It is the theory of relativity, which, on the one hand, remains the classical view of universe as a collection of interacting physical bodies but, on the other hand, establishes a strict limitation on the absolute value of speed, which fundamentally cannot be higher than the speed of light. The characteristic feature of this model is the fundamental impossibility of any nonlocal signaling as it inevitably leads to the violation of causality
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