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View SchemaRealisation of Hardy's Thought Experiment
| Authors | William T. M. Irvine, Juan F. Hodelin, Christoph Simon, Dirk Bouwmeester |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0410160 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0410160 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.030401 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 030401 (2005) |
Abstract
We present an experimental realisation of Hardy's thought experiment [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 68}, 2981 (1992)], using photons. The experiment consists of a pair of Mach-Zehnder interferometers that interact through photon bunching at a beam splitter. A striking contradiction is created between the predictions of quantum mechanics and local hidden variable based theories. The contradiction relies on non-maximally entangled position states of two particles.
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