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Experiments towards Falsification of Noncontextual Hidden Variable Theories

Markus Michler, Harald Weinfurter, Marek Zukowski

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0009061

Abstract

We present two experiments testing the hypothesis of noncontextual hidden variables (NCHV's). The first one is based on observation of two-photon pseudo-Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger correlations, with two of the originally three particles mimicked by the polarization degree of freedom and the spatial degree of freedom of a single photon. The second one, a single-photon experiment, utilizes the same trick to emulate two particle correlations, and is an "event ready" test of a Bell-like inequality, derived from the noncontextuality assumption. Modulo fair sampling, the data falsify NCHV's.

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