No Violation of Bell-CHSH Inequalities at Large Distances

The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox and the Bell-type inequalities play significant role in understanding of quantum nonlocality and the foundations of quantum theory and quantum technologies. In this paper, we note that the usual derivation of the violation of Bell-type inequalities can be applied actually only for small distances between detectors. It does not take into account the dependence of the quantum mechanical wave function on space-time variables. We study the behavior of entangled photons obtained in spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) experiments and show that at large distances there is in fact no violation of the Bell-CHSH inequalities. We show that the initial entangled states become disentangled at large space-like distances. This does not contradict the violation of Bell inequalities observed at small distances between detectors. We propose an experiment to study the dependence of the quantum correlation function and Bell value on increasing distance between detectors. We predict that these quantities decrease inversely proportional to the increase of the distance between the detectors.