Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories

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• Horne, Michael A.
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• Shimony, Abner
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• Holt, Richard A.

Abstract

A theorem of Bell, proving that certain predictions of quantum mechanics are inconsistent with the entire family of local hidden-variable theories, is generalized so as to apply to realizable experiments. A proposed extension of the experiment of Kocher and Commins, on the polarization correlation of a pair of optical photons, will provide a decisive test between quantum mechanics and local hidden-variable theories.