An entangled web of crime: Bell’s theorem as a short story

DOI10.1119/1.1979499MaRDI QIDQ5449095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Kurt Jacobs, H. M. Wiseman

Publication date 11 March 2008

Published in American Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0504192, http://hdl.handle.net/10072/4937

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to quantum theory (81-01)

Abstract: Non-locality of the type first elucidated by Bell in 1964 is a difficult concept to explain to non-specialists and undergraduates. Here we attempt this by showing how such non-locality can be used to solve a problem in which someone might find themselves as the result of a collection of normal, even if somewhat unlikely, events. Our story is told in the style of a Sherlock Holmes mystery, and is based on Mermin's formulation of the "paradoxical" illustration of quantum non-locality discovered by Greenberger, Horne and Zeilinger.

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