Experiments towards falsification of noncontextual hidden variable theories

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 84, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 5457-5461

  Michler, Markus ^a   Weinfurter, Harald ^b,c   Zukowski, Marek ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARGED PARTICLES; CORRELATION METHODS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE POLARIZATION; FUNCTIONS; PHOTONS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

BELL LIKE INEQUALITY; GREEBERGER-HORNE-ZEILINGER CORRELATIONS; NONCONTEXTUAL HIDDEN VARIABLE THEORIES;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 17744415285     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.5457     Document Type: Article

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