The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen debate: on the way to a final answer Conference Paper

abstract

• The status of our experimental realization of Bohm's spin-1/2 particle version of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen gedankenexperiment is discussed. This new experiment provides a definitive test of the, as yet, untested strong Bell inequalities. It closes the two widely recognized loopholes associated with previous experiments, and has the interesting new feature that the entangled state exists for milliseconds rather than nanoseconds. The spin one-half particles are two l99Hg atoms in an entangled nuclear spin state with total nuclear spin zero. Measurement of the nuclear spin correlation is achieved by detection of each atom using a spin state selective two photon exdtation-ionization scheme.

authors

• Fry, Edward

published proceedings

• PHYSICA SCRIPTA

author list (cited authors)

• Fry, E. S., Walther, T., & Kenefick, R. A.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Fry, ES||Walther, T||Kenefick, RA

publication date

• December 1998

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• n0281-1847ISSN  Journal

keywords

• 49 Mathematical Sciences
• 51 Physical Sciences

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1238/Physica.Topical.076a00047

start page

• 47

end page

• 51

volume

• T76

issue

• 1

URL

• http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.1238%2Fphysica.topical.076a00047