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| Authors | Christoph Simon, Caslav Brukner, Anton Zeilinger |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0006043 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0006043 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.4427 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 86 (2001) 4427-4430. |
Abstract
It has recently been questioned whether the Kochen-Specker theorem is relevant to real experiments, which by necessity only have finite precision. We give an affirmative answer to this question by showing how to derive hidden-variable theorems that apply to real experiments, so that non-contextual hidden variables can indeed be experimentally disproved. The essential point is that for the derivation of hidden-variable theorems one does not have to know which observables are really measured by the apparatus. Predictions can be derived for observables that are defined in an entirely operational way.
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