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Experimental measurement-dependent local Bell test with human free will

Authors :
Cheng Wu
Morgan W. Mitchell
Xiongfeng Ma
Jiaqiang Zhong
Carlos Abellan
Weijun Zhang
Qiang Zhang
Lixing You
Sheng-Cai Shi
Jian-Wei Pan
Yang Liu
Zhen Wang
Ming-Han Li
Hao Li
Xiao Yuan
Jian-Yu Guan
Jingyun Fan
Source :
Physical Review A

Abstract

A Bell test can rule out local realistic models and has potential applications in communication and information tasks. For example, a Bell's inequality violation can certify the presence of intrinsic randomness in measurement outcomes, which can be used to generate unpredictable random numbers. Nevertheless, a Bell test requires measurements that are chosen independently of environment in the test, as would be the case if the measurement setting choices were themselves intrinsically random. Such situation seems to create a ``bootstrapping problem'' recently addressed in the BIG Bell Test, a collection of various Bell tests using human choices. Here, we report in detail our experimental methods and results within the BIG Bell Test, specifically for a special type of Bell inequality, known as the measurement-dependent local inequality. With this inequality, even a small amount of measurement independence makes it possible to disprove local realistic models. The experiment utilizes human-generated random numbers in selecting the measurement settings and is implemented with space-like separation between two distant measurement sites. The experimental result violates a Bell's inequality, which cannot be explained by local hidden variable models with independence parameter (as defined in [G. P\"utz et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 190402 (2014)]) $lg0.10\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.05$. This result further quantifies the degree to which a local hidden variable model would need to constrain human choices, if it is to reproduce the experimental results.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
24699934 and 24699926
Volume :
99
Issue :
2
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Physical Review A
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....f40e3522cae13beecc602a0abfb7b65d
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.99.022115