EXPERIMENTAL TEST OF LOCAL HIDDEN-VARIABLE THEORIES uri icon

abstract

  • We have measured the linear polarization correlation between the two photons from the 7S136P136S01 cascade of Hg200. The results were used to evaluate Freedman's version of the Bell inequality, <~0. Our result is exp=+0.0460.014, in clear violation of the inequality and in excellent agreement with the quantum mechanical prediction, QM=+0.0440.007. An important feature of the experiment was the explicit measurement of the initial density matrix for the cascading atoms. 1976 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

altmetric score

  • 8

author list (cited authors)

  • FRY, E. S., & THOMPSON, R. C.

citation count

  • 278

complete list of authors

  • FRY, ES||THOMPSON, RC

publication date

  • August 1976