Resolving Nonlocal State Reduction via Induced Coherence in Frequency-Comb Biphoton Sources
Abstract
How macroscopic definite outcomes and nonlocal correlations emerge from entangled superpositions across spacelike-separated regions without superluminal action or {\it ad hoc} wavefunction collapse remains a defining open question in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Here, we resolve this century-long paradox within \textit{linear} relativistic quantum electrodynamics by developing an open-system and measurement-defined framework realized in dual, spacelike-separated nonlinear crystals driven synchronously by a multi-mode optical frequency comb and seeded by an ultra-narrow coherent laser. Expanding the transverse electromagnetic vector potential into discrete single-photon frequency-comb supermodes, we show that tracing out the unmeasured continuous-wave idler field yields an exact spatial dephasing Lindblad master equation whose decoherence rate is governed by the non-orthogonal state overlap of single-photon-added coherent states. Connecting this open-system map to free-vector-space quotient measurement theory, we demonstrate that single-particle interference arises from the geometric projection of the composite state onto detector-defined conditional cosets rather than remote collapse, establishing strict operational equivalence across pump, seed, and signal phase scans. The resulting wave-particle-entanglement triality equality P2 + E2 + V2 = 1 is saturated across the complete parameter space, while the atomic-clock-referenced comb structure anchors continuous-variable time-frequency displacement stabilizers directly at the hardware layer. Our work unifies induced coherence, Bohr's complementarity, and quotient measurement theory, providing a microscopic pathway toward fault-tolerant bosonic quantum information processing.
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BibTeX
@misc{yoon2026resolving,
title = {{Resolving Nonlocal State Reduction via Induced Coherence in Frequency-Comb Biphoton Sources}},
author = {Tai Hyun Yoon},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.27602},
eprint = {2610.27602},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27602},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Resolving Nonlocal State Reduction via Induced Coherence in Frequency-Comb Biphoton Sources
AU - Tai Hyun Yoon
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/23
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.27602
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.27602
AB - How macroscopic definite outcomes and nonlocal correlations emerge from entangled superpositions across spacelike-separated regions without superluminal action or {\it ad hoc} wavefunction collapse remains a defining open question in the foundations of quantum mechanics. Here, we resolve this century-long paradox within \textit{linear} relativistic quantum electrodynamics by developing an open-system and measurement-defined framework realized in dual, spacelike-separated nonlinear crystals driven synchronously by a multi-mode optical frequency comb and seeded by an ultra-narrow coherent laser. Expanding the transverse electromagnetic vector potential into discrete single-photon frequency-comb supermodes, we show that tracing out the unmeasured continuous-wave idler field yields an exact spatial dephasing Lindblad master equation whose decoherence rate is governed by the non-orthogonal state overlap of single-photon-added coherent states. Connecting this open-system map to free-vector-space quotient measurement theory, we demonstrate that single-particle interference arises from the geometric projection of the composite state onto detector-defined conditional cosets rather than remote collapse, establishing strict operational equivalence across pump, seed, and signal phase scans. The resulting wave-particle-entanglement triality equality P^2 + E^2 + V^2 = 1 is saturated across the complete parameter space, while the atomic-clock-referenced comb structure anchors continuous-variable time-frequency displacement stabilizers directly at the hardware layer. Our work unifies induced coherence, Bohr's complementarity, and quotient measurement theory, providing a microscopic pathway toward fault-tolerant bosonic quantum information processing.
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