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Experimental Falsification of Leggetts Non-Local Variable Model

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 نشر من قبل Antia Lamas-Linares
 تاريخ النشر 2007
  مجال البحث فيزياء
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Bells theorem guarantees that no model based on local variables can reproduce quantum correlations. Also some models based on non-local variables, if subject to apparently reasonable constraints, may fail to reproduce quantum physics. In this paper, we introduce a family of inequalities, which allow testing Leggetts non-local model versus quantum physics, and which can be tested in an experiment without additional assumptions. Our experimental data falsify Leggetts model and are in agreement with quantum predictions.

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