Bell's Theorem without Inequalities and without Alignments

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 23, 2003, Pages 2304031-2304034

  Cabello, Adán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELECTRON ENERGY LEVELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; PROBABILITY; TENSORS; THEOREM PROVING;

BELL THEOREM; FOUR-QUBIT STATES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0347316792     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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