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Research in Optical Sciences

Violation of the KCBS Inequality Using Polarized Biphoton Qutrits

Assaf Shaham, H. S. Eisenberg

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations
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Abstract

We studied the violation of the KCBS inequality using polarized biphoton qutrits. This inequality refutes any classical description for measurement outcomes of spin-1 systems. The inequality was also tested in the presence of controlled decoherence.
DOI
10.1364/hilas.2014.jw2a.61

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