Proposed optical test of Bell's inequalities not resting upon the fair sampling assumption

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2004.04.065MaRDI QIDQ2476334zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emilio Santos

Publication date 19 March 2008

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0401003

zbMATH Keywords

Bell inequalitiesfair samplinghidden variableslocal realism

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15)

Abstract: A simple local hidden-variables model is exhibited which reproduces the results of all performed tests of Bell'{}s inequalities involving optical photon pairs. For the old atomic-cascade experiments, like Aspect'{}s, the model agrees with quantum mechanics even for ideal set-ups. For more recent experiments, using parametric down-converted photons, the agreement occurs only for actual experiments, involving low efficiency detectors. Arguments are given against the fair sampling assumption, currently combined with the results of the experiments in order to claim a contradiction with local realism. New tests are proposed which are able to discriminate between quantum mechanics and a restricted, but appealing, family of local hidden-variables models. Such tests require detectors with efficiencies just above 20%.

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