arXiv:1606.00784 · Fortschritte der Physik

Test of the no‐signaling principle in the Hensen loophole‐free CHSH experiment

Guillaume Adenier, Andrei Yu. Khrennikov

Published Apr 18, 2017• 43 citations

Abstract

Abstract We analyze the data from the loophole‐free CHSH experiment performed by Hensen et al., and show that it is actually not exempt of an important loophole. By increasing the size of the sample of event‐ready detections, one can exhibit in the experimental data a violation of the no‐signaling principle with a statistical significance at least similar to that of the reported violation of the CHSH inequality, if not stronger.

DOI: 10.1002/prop.201600096

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