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Bell Inequalities in Phase Space and their Violation in Quantum Mechanics

Quantum Physics 2011-09-14 v1

Abstract

We derive ``Bell inequalities'' in four dimensional phase space and prove the following ``three marginal theorem'' for phase space densities ρ(q,p)\rho(\overrightarrow{q},\overrightarrow{p}), thus settling a long standing conjecture : ``there exist quantum states for which more than three of the quantum probability distributions for (q1,q2)(q_1,q_2), (p1,p2)(p_1,p_2), (q1,p2)(q_1,p_2) and (p1,q2)(p_1,q_2) cannot be reproduced as marginals of a positive ρ(q,p)\rho(\overrightarrow{q},\overrightarrow{p})''. We also construct the most general positive ρ(q,p)\rho(\overrightarrow{q},\overrightarrow{p}) which reproduces any three of the above quantum probability densities for arbitrary quantum states. This is crucial for the construction of a maximally realistic quantum theory.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0205157,
  title  = {Bell Inequalities in Phase Space and their Violation in Quantum Mechanics},
  author = {G. Auberson and G. Mahoux and S. M. Roy and Virendra Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0205157},
  year   = {2011}
}

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11 pages, latex, no figures