A New Loophole in Recent Bell Test Experiments
Abstract
Recent experiments have reached detection efficiencies sufficient to close the detection loophole with photons. Both experiments ran multiple successive trials in fixed measurement configurations, rather than randomly re-setting the measurement configurations before each measurement trial. This opens a new potential loophole for a local hidden variable theory. The loophole invalidates one proposed method of statistical analysis of the experimental results, as demonstrated in this note. Therefore a different analysis will be necessary to definitively assert that these experiments are subject only to the locality loophole.
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@article{arxiv.1311.4488,
title = {A New Loophole in Recent Bell Test Experiments},
author = {Peter Bierhorst},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.4488},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages. The single change in this version is the addition of a footnote to the abstract, which highlights some recent work on the problem