Testing EPR locality using B-mesons

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2008.10.013zbMATH Open1227.81078arXiv0805.3632OpenAlexW1854988457MaRDI QIDQ647030FDOQ647030

Authors: Tsubasa Ichikawa, Satoshi Tamura, Izumi Tsutsui 

Publication date: 30 November 2011

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

Abstract: We study the possibility of testing local realistic theory (LRT), envisioned implicitly by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen in 1935, based on the Bell inequality for the correlations in the decay modes of entangled K or B-mesons. It is shown that such a test is possible for a restricted class of LRT, despite the passive nature of decay events and/or the non-unitary treatment of the correlations which invalidate the test for general LRT. Unfortunately, the present setup of the KEKB (Belle) experiment, where the coherence of entangled B-mesons has been confirmed recently, does not admit such a test due to the inability of determining the decay times of the entangled pairs separately. The indeterminacy also poses a problem for ensuring the locality of the test, indicating that improvement to resolve the indeterminacy is crucial for the test of LRT.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3632

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Coherent states (81R30) Quantum scattering theory (81U99)

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