Quantum mechanical probabilities and general probabilistic constraints for Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments

Foundations of Physics Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 427-442

  Cereceda, José L ^a  

^a NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bell's inequality; Causal communication constraint; EPRB type experiment; Hardy's non locality theorem; Joint probability; Quantum mechanics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034357504     PISSN: 08949875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007828731477     Document Type: Article

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