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Experimental Tests of Nonlocality with Entangled Photons

Bradley Christensen, Nicolas Gisin, Nicolas Brunner, Yeong-Cherng Liang, Paul G. Kwiat

Published Jan 1, 2015• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report on a variety of Bell tests performed with a high-quality photonic entanglement source. These tests begin to quantify nonlocal resources available in quantum mechanics, as well as place bounds on beyond-quantum theories.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2015.ftu2a.8

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