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View SchemaAn Entangled Web of Crime: Bell's Theorem as a Short Story
| Authors | Kurt Jacobs, Howard Wiseman |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0504192 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0504192 |
| DOI | 10.1119/1.1979499 |
| Journal | Am. J. Phys 73, 932-937 (2005) |
Abstract
Non-locality of the type first elucidated by Bell in 1964 is a difficult concept to explain to non-specialists and undergraduates. Here we attempt this by showing how such non-locality can be used to solve a problem in which someone might find themselves as the result of a collection of normal, even if somewhat unlikely, events. Our story is told in the style of a Sherlock Holmes mystery, and is based on Mermin's formulation of the "paradoxical" illustration of quantum non-locality discovered by Greenberger, Horne and Zeilinger.
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