Bell theorem without inequalities for two particles. II. Inefficient detectors

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Greenberger, Daniel M ^a   Horne, Michael ^b   Zeilinger, Anton ^c   Zukowski, Marek ^d  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b STONEHILL COLLEGE   (United States)

^c INSTITUT FÜR EXPERIMENTALPHYSIK   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BELL THEOREM; DETECTION EFFICIENCIES; DOWN-CONVERSION; ENTANGLEMENT SWAPPING; GREENBERGER-HORNE- ZEILINGER; HIDDEN VARIABLES; INEFFICIENT DETECTORS; LASER SOURCES; NATURAL EXTENSION; QUANTUM-MECHANICAL; RANDOM SAMPLING; REALISTIC MODELING; SINGLE SOURCING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 50249129684     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.022111     Document Type: Article

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