Violation of Bell's inequality in the presence of superselection rules
Tomasz Paterek, Paweł Kurzyński, Daniel K. L. Oi +1 more
Superselection rules (SSRs) constrain the allowable physical operations and consequently the ability to observe violations of local realism. Not only do SSRs restrict the type of states which can be prepared, equally they restrict the reference frames which are necessary for measurements. Here, we derive quantitative conditions under which a Bell inequality is violated in the presence of SSRs which reveal the critical role of reference frames. In particular, references prepared only locally in accordance with SSRs cannot be used to violate a Bell inequality. We discuss the optimal reference frames, their minimal size and reusability. Finally we comment on experiments related to Bell inequality and single photon non-locality, and propose a new experiment showing violation under an induced SSR. ‡ Corresponding author. ar X iv :1 00 4. 51 84 v2 [ qu an tph ] 1 6 Ju n 20 10 Violation of Bell’s inequality in the presence of superselection rules 2
•Apr 29, 2010•1 citation