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arXiv:2309.02941 · Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Weyl operators, Tomita-Takesaki theory, and Bell-Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality violations

Philipe De Fabritiis, F. M. Guedes, M. S. Guimarães, G. Peruzzo, I. Roditi, Silvio Paolo sorella

Published Oct 31, 2023• 18 citations
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Abstract

The violation of the Bell-Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt inequality in the vacuum state of a relativistic free real scalar field is established by means of the Tomita-Takesaki construction and the direct computation of the correlation functions of Weyl operators.
DOI
10.1103/physrevd.108.085026

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