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Bell Inequalities, Experimental Protocols and Contextuality

Quantum Physics 2015-08-26 v3 History and Philosophy of Physics

Abstract

The violation of Bell, CHSH and CH inequalities indicates only that the assumption of "conterfactual definiteness" and/or the probabilistic models used in proofs were incorrect. In this paper we discuss in detail an intimate relation between experimental protocols and probabilistic models. In particular we show that local realistic and stochastic hidden variable models are inconsistent with the experimental protocols used in spin polarization correlation experiments. In particular these models neglect a contextual character of quantum theory (QT) and do not describe properly quantum measurements. We argue that the violation of various inequalities gives arguments against the irreducible randomness of act of the measurement. Therefore quantum probabilities are reducible what means that QT is emergent. In this case one could expect to discover in time series of data some unpredicted fine structures proving that QT is not predictably complete what would be a major discovery.

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@article{arxiv.1411.7085,
  title  = {Bell Inequalities, Experimental Protocols and Contextuality},
  author = {Marian Kupczynski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1411.7085},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

19 pages,17eqs,75 references. Invited Talk given at QTPA conference in Vaxjo, Sweden, 2014, In last version small modification made in the first paragraph of the section 4.3, Found. Phys.,2014

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