Experimental violation of a spin-1 Bell inequality using maximally entangled four-photon states

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作者
Howell, JC [1 ]
Lamas-Linares, A [1 ]
Bouwmeester, D [1 ]
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[1] Univ Oxford, Clarendon Lab, Ctr Quantum Computat, Oxford OX1 3PU, England
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.030401
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O4 [物理学];
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We demonstrate the experimental violation of a spin-1 Bell inequality. The spin-1 inequality is based on the Clauser, Horne, Shimony, and Holt formalism. For entangled spin-1 particles, the maximum quantum-mechanical prediction is 2.55 as opposed to a maximum of 2, predicted using local hidden variables. We obtained an experimental value of 2.27 +/- 0.02 using the four-photon state generated by pulsed, type-II, stimulated parametric down-conversion. This is a violation of the spin-1 Bell inequality by more than 13 standard deviations.
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