Bell violation using entangled photons without the fair-sampling assumption

Nature

Volumn 497, Issue 7448, 2013, Pages 227-230

  Giustina, Marissa ^a,b   Mech, Alexandra ^a,b   Ramelow, Sven ^a,b   Wittmann, Bernhard ^a,b   Kofler, Johannes ^a,c   Beyer, Jörn ^d   Lita, Adriana ^e   Calkins, Brice ^e   Gerrits, Thomas ^e   Nam, Sae Woo ^e   Ursin, Rupert ^a   Zeilinger, Anton ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^d PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SAMPLING;

ARTICLE; BELL INEQUALITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SAMPLING; SENSOR; TEMPERATURE; THEORY; TRANSITION EDGE SENSOR;

EID: 84877790798     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12012     Document Type: Article

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