Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Bell's inequality for mixed states

A. Mann, Ko Nakamura, M. Revzen

Published Jul 7, 1992• 3 citations

Abstract

Violation of Bell's inequality for mixed states is considered. The authors show that a mixture of states that are macroscopically essentially equivalent may suppress the violation. Thus in general the inequality will not be violated by mixed states (except very special ones).

DOI: 10.1088/0305-4470/25/13/014

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