Experiments towards falsification of noncontextual hidden variable theories

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作者
Michler, M [1 ]
Weinfurter, H
Zukowski, M
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[1] Univ Innsbruck, Inst Expt Phys, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
[2] Univ Munich, Sekt Phys, D-80799 Munich, Germany
[3] Max Planck Inst Quantum Opt, D-85748 Garching, Germany
[4] Univ Gdansk, Inst Fizyki Teoretycznaj & Astrofizyki, PL-80952 Gdansk, Poland
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5457
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O4 [物理学];
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We present two experiments testing the hypothesis of noncontextual hidden variables. 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. Module fair sampling, the data falsify noncontextual hidden variables.
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