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Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories

John F. Clauser*

Michael A. Horne

Abner Shimony

Richard A. Holt

  • Department of Physics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027

  • Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215

  • Departments of Philosophy and Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215

  • Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138

  • *Present address: Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley, Calif.

Phys. Rev. Lett. 23, 880 – Published 13 October, 1969Erratum Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 549 (1970)

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.23.880

Abstract

A theorem of Bell, proving that certain predictions of quantum mechanics are inconsistent with the entire family of local hidden-variable theories, is generalized so as to apply to realizable experiments. A proposed extension of the experiment of Kocher and Commins, on the polarization correlation of a pair of optical photons, will provide a decisive test between quantum mechanics and local hidden-variable theories.

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Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden Variable Theories.

John F. Clauser, Michael A. Horne, Abner Shimony, and Richard A. Holt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 24, 549 (1970)

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