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Leggett formulated an inequality which seems to generalize the Bell theorem to non-local hidden variable theories. Leggett inequality is violated by quantum mechanics, as was confirmed by experiment. However, a careful analysis reveals that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 A. Di Lorenzo

Tests of local hidden variable theories using measurements with continuous variable (CV) outcomes are developed, and a comparison of different methods is presented. As examples, we focus on multipartite entangled GHZ and cluster states. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Q. Y. He , E. G. Cavalcanti , M. D. Reid , P. D. Drummond

From gravity to electromagnetism, apparent action at a distance has always been resolved by deeper, local explanations. Yet today, Bell's theorem is widely interpreted as the death knell for local reality. In this chapter, I present the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Charles Alexandre Bédard

Bell's theorem implies that any completion of quantum mechanics which uses hidden variables (that is, preexisting values of all observables) must be nonlocal in the Einstein sense. This customarily indicates that knowledge of the hidden…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Avishy Carmi , Eliahu Cohen , Lorenzo Maccone , Hrvoje Nikolic

A Bell inequality violation (BIQV) allowed by the two-mode squeezed state (TMSS), whose Wigner function is nonnegative, is shown to hold only for correlations among dynamical variables (DV) that cannot be interpreted via a local hidden…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Revzen , P. A. Mello , A. Mann , L. M. Johansen

A recent proof of Bell's theorem without inequalities [A. Cabello, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 1911 (2001)] is formulated as a Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger-like proof involving just two observers. On one hand, this new approach allows us to derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Adan Cabello

In [Physical Review Letters 101, 050403 (2008)], we showed that quantum theory cannot be explained by a hidden variable model with a non-trivial local part. The purpose of this comment is to clarify our notion of local part, which seems to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-02-05 Roger Colbeck , Renato Renner

Hess and Philipp have recently claimed that proofs of Bell's theorem have overlooked the possibility of time dependence in local hidden variables, hence the theorem has not been proven true. Moreover they present what is claimed to be a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. D. Gill , G. Weihs , A. Zeilinger , M. Zukowski

Counterfactual definiteness is supposed to underlie the Bell theorem. An old controversy exists among those who reject the theorem implications by rejecting counterfactual definiteness and those who claim that, since it is a direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Justo Pastor Lambare , Rodney Franco

We prove that for a three-qubit system in the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state, locality per se is in conflict with the perfect GHZ correlations. The proof does not in any way use the realism assumption and can lead to a refutation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zeng-Bing Chen , Nai-Le Liu , Sixia Yu , Yong-De Zhang

While all bipartite pure entangled states violate some Bell inequality, the relationship between entanglement and non-locality for mixed quantum states is not well understood. We introduce a simple and efficient algorithmic approach for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Barbara M. Terhal , Andrew C. Doherty , David Schwab

In this paper we analyze the existence of joint probabilities for the Bell-type and GHZ entangled states. We then propose the usage of nonmonotonic upper probabilities as a tool to derive consistent joint upper probabilities for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-18 Jose Acacio de Barros , Patrick Suppes

Recently, it was demonstrated by Son et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{102}, 110404 (2009), that a separable bipartite continuous variable quantum system can violate the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt (CHSH) inequality via operationally local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Mark S. Williamson , Libby Heaney , Wonmin Son

We propose an experimentally feasible scheme to demonstrate quantum nonlocality, using Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) and $W$ entanglement between atomic ensembles generated by a new developed method based on laser manipulation and{}…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 X. -B. Zhou , Y. -S. Zhang , G. -C. Guo

For the case of two spin-1/2 particles in the singlet state, we provide a GHZ-type proof of Bell's theorem by using the idea of postselected measurements. Furthermore, we show that in spite of the low efficiency of the detectors one can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Afshin Shafiee , Mehdi Golshani

For a subset of 2 dimensional unit parameter vectors, Bell's correlation formula with local hidden variables reproduces the quantum correlation. This is unexpected considering a general no-go LHV claim derived from the same function.

General Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 Han Geurdes

Recently there has been an increased interest in possible tests of locality via Bell's inequality or tests of entanglement at colliders, in particular at the LHC. These have involved various physical processes, such as $t \bar t$, or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-23 Steven A. Abel , Herbi K. Dreiner , Rhitaja Sengupta , Lorenzo Ubaldi

We prove that there are tripartite quantum states (constructed from random unitaries) that can lead to arbitrarily large violations of Bell inequalities for dichotomic observables. As a consequence these states can withstand an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-17 D. Perez-Garcia , M. M Wolf , C. Palazuelos , I. Villanueva , M. Junge

The 1964 theorem of John Bell shows that no model that reproduces the predictions of quantum mechanics can simultaneously satisfy the assumptions of locality and determinism. On the other hand, the assumptions of \emph{signal locality} plus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 Eric G. Cavalcanti , Howard M. Wiseman

A formula for the commutator of tensor product matrices is used to shows that, for qubits, compatibility of quantum multiparty observables almost never implies local compatibility at each site and to predict when this happens/does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 Claudio Altafini