An experimental test of the EPR paradox

Faraci, G.; Gutkowski, D.; Notarrigo, S.; Pennisi, A.

doi:10.1007/bf02763124

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“…Most of them was in good agreement with SQM prediction (with the caution due to the auxiliary assumptions that we have just discussed), with the exception of Ref. [18].…”

Section: First Experimental Tests Of Bell Inequalitiessupporting

confidence: 71%

Research on hidden variable theories: A review of recent progresses

2005

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Quantum Mechanics (QM) is one of the pillars of modern physics: an impressive amount of experiments have confirmed this theory and many technological applications are based on it. Nevertheless, at one century since its development, various aspects concerning its very foundations still remain to be clarified. Among them, the transition from a microscopic probabilistic world into a macroscopic deterministic one and quantum non-locality. A possible way out from these problems would be if QM represents a statistical approximation of an unknown deterministic theory.This review is addressed to present the most recent progresses on the studies related to Hidden Variable Theories (HVT), both from an experimental and a theoretical point of view, giving a larger emphasis to results with a direct experimental application.More in details, the first part of the review is a historical introduction to this problem. The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument and the first discussions about HVT are introduced, describing the fundamental Bell's proposal for a general experimental test of every Local HVT and the first attempts to realise it.The second part of the review is devoted to elucidate the recent progresses toward a conclusive Bell inequalities experiment obtained with entangled photons and other physical systems.Finally, the last sections are targeted to shortly discuss Non-Local HVT.1

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“…Most of them was in good agreement with SQM prediction (with the caution due to the auxiliary assumptions that we have just discussed), with the exception of Ref. [18].…”

Section: First Experimental Tests Of Bell Inequalitiessupporting

confidence: 71%

Research on hidden variable theories: A review of recent progresses

2005

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“…For this reason, a direct experimental test of the superposition principle is hard to devise. Bell's inequality [ 16] has been checked in several experiments [17][18][19][20] but it serves to exclude a class of hidden-variable theories [21] rather than to test the hypothesis that quantum mechanics is a linear approximation to some more general theory as has been suggested by de Broglie [22] and, in connection with the problem of conciousness, by Wigner [233. In Section 2 1 briefly recall some features of the simple nonrelativistic model based on the nonlinear Schr0dinger equation, pointing out in particular the difficulty of finding a consistent measurement theory for it. Then in Section 3 I present the new generalized field-theoretic models, based on the idea that the parameters defining the theory, such as masses and coupling constants, may be state-dependent.…”

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Relativistic models of nonlinear quantum mechanics

1978

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“…The latter paper has 28 citations, 13 until 1982. Faraci et al (1974) Behind this decision was their trust in quantum mechanics. Pipkin concisely recorded that "the measurements on the polarization correlation disagree with quantum mechanics and agree with the predictions of hidden variable theory.…”

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Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965–1982)

Freire

2006

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in

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This paper deals with the ways that the issue of completing quantum mechanics was brought into laboratories and became a topic in mainstream quantum optics. It focuses on the period between 1965, when the Bell published what we now call Bell's theorem, and 1982, when Aspect published the results of his experiments. Discussing some of those past contexts and practices, I show that factors in addition to theoretical innovations, experiments, and techniques were necessary for the flourishing of this subject, and that the experimental implications of Bell's theorem were neither suddenly recognized nor quickly highly regarded by physicists. Indeed, I will argue that what was considered good physics after Aspect's 1982 experiments was once considered by many a philosophical matter instead of a scientific one, and that the path from philosophy to physics required a change in the physics community's attitude about the status of the foundations of quantum mechanics.

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An experimental test of the EPR paradox

Cited by 87 publications

References 12 publications

Research on hidden variable theories: A review of recent progresses

Research on hidden variable theories: A review of recent progresses

Relativistic models of nonlinear quantum mechanics

Philosophy enters the optics laboratory: Bell's theorem and its first experimental tests (1965–1982)

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