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View SchemaExperiments towards Falsification of Noncontextual Hidden Variable Theories
| Authors | Markus Michler, Harald Weinfurter, Marek Zukowski |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0009061 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0009061 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5457 |
| Journal | Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5457 (2000) |
Abstract
We present two experiments testing the hypothesis of noncontextual hidden variables (NCHV's). The first one is based on observation of two-photon pseudo-Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger correlations, with two of the originally three particles mimicked by the polarization degree of freedom and the spatial degree of freedom of a single photon. The second one, a single-photon experiment, utilizes the same trick to emulate two particle correlations, and is an "event ready" test of a Bell-like inequality, derived from the noncontextuality assumption. Modulo fair sampling, the data falsify NCHV's.
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