Anomalies in experimental data for the EPR-Bohm experiment: Are both classical and quantum mechanics wrong?
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 from the predictions of quantum mechanics, namely, and However, in some mysterious way those deviations compensate each other and finally the correlation is in the complete agreement with the QM-prediction, namely, 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?
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
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)