Violation of a Bell-like inequality in single-neutron interferometry

Nature

Volumn 425, Issue 6953, 2003, Pages 45-48

  Hasegawa, Yuji ^a   Loidl, Rudolf ^a,b   Badurek, Gerald ^a   Baron, Matthias ^a,b   Rauch, Helmut ^a  

^a TU WIEN   (Austria)

^b INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); NEUTRONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

INEQUALITIES;

INTERFEROMETRY;

INTERFEROMETRY;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; INTERFEROMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; NEUTRON; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

EID: 0041822011     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01881     Document Type: Article

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