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Violation of Bell's Inequalities with Classical Shimony-Wolf States: Theory and Experiment

Authors :
Qian, X. F.
Little, B.
Howell, J. C.
Eberly, J. H.
Publication Year :
2014

Abstract

For many decades the word "entanglement" has been firmly attached to the world of quantum mechanics, as is the phrase "Bell violation". Here we introduce Shimony-Wolf fields, entirely classical non-deterministic states, as a basis for entanglement and Bell analyses. Such fields are well known in coherence optics and are open to test. We present experimental results showing that Shimony-Wolf states exhibit strong classical Bell violation, in effect opening a way of examining a new sector of the boundary between quantum and classical physics.<br />Comment: 15 pages

Subjects

Subjects :
Quantum Physics
Physics - Optics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1406.3338
Document Type :
Working Paper