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It is argued that the Heisenberg picture of standard quantum mechanics does not save Einstein locality as claimed in Deutsch and Hayden (Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 456, 1759–1774, 2000). In particular, the EPR-type correlations that the authors obtain by comparing two qubits in a local manner are shown to exist before that comparison. In view of this result, the local comparison argument would appear to be ineffective in supporting their locality claim.
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Kastner, R.E. Quantum Nonlocality: Not Eliminated by the Heisenberg Picture. Found Phys 41, 1137–1142 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10701-011-9536-5
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