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Anomalies in experimental data for the EPR-Bohm experiment: Are both classical and quantum mechanics wrong?

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We analyze anomalies in data to test the violation of Bell's inequality for the EPR-Bohm experiment. We found that the experimental correlations for photon polarization have an intriguing property. In the experimental data there are visible non-negligible deviations of probabilities P++exp(α,β),P+exp(α,β),P+exp(α,β),Pexp(α,β)P_{++}^{\rm{exp}}(\alpha, \beta), P_{+-}^{\rm{exp}}(\alpha, \beta), P_{-+}^{\rm{exp}}(\alpha, \beta), P_{--}^{\rm{exp}}(\alpha, \beta) from the predictions of quantum mechanics, namely, P++(α,β)=P(α,β)=1/2cos2(αβ)P_{++}(\alpha, \beta)=P_{--}(\alpha, \beta)= {1/2}\cos^2(\alpha-\beta) and P+=P+(α,β)=1/2sin2(αβ).P_{+-}=P_{-+}(\alpha, \beta)={1/2}\sin^2(\alpha-\beta). However, in some mysterious way those deviations compensate each other and finally the correlation Eexp(α,β)=P++exp(α,β)P+exp(α,β)P+exp(α,β)+Pexp(α,β)E^{\rm{exp}}(\alpha, \beta)= P_{++}^{\rm{exp}}(\alpha, \beta)- P_{+-}^{\rm{exp}}(\alpha, \beta)- P_{-+}^{\rm{exp}}(\alpha, \beta)+ P_{--}^{\rm{exp}}(\alpha, \beta) is in the complete agreement with the QM-prediction, namely, E(α,β)=P++(α,β)P+(α,β)P+(α,β)+P(α,β)=cos2(αβ).E(\alpha, \beta)= P_{++}(\alpha, \beta)- P_{+-}(\alpha, \beta)- P_{-+}(\alpha, \beta)+ P_{--}(\alpha, \beta)= \cos 2(\alpha-\beta). Therefore such anomalies play no role in the Bell's inequality framework. Nevertheless, other linear combinations of experimental probabilities do not have such a compensation property. There can be found non-negligible deviations from predictions of quantum mechanics. Thus neither classical nor quantum model can pass the whole family of statistical tests given by all possible linear combinations of the EPR-Bohm probabilities. Does it mean that both models are wrong?

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0607172,
  title  = {Anomalies in experimental data for the EPR-Bohm experiment: Are both classical and quantum mechanics wrong?},
  author = {Guillaume Adenier and Andrei Khrennikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0607172},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Presented in talks at conferences: "Foundations of Probability and Physics-4" (Vaxjo, Sweden, June 2006), "Quantum Probability" (Greifswald, Germany, March 2006 and Nottingham, UK, July 2006), "Quantum Structures Association" (Malta, July 2006)

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