(How) Did Einstein Understand the EPR Paradox?

The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox is one of the earliest paradoxes, arising from the lack of local realistic description of mechanics. The EPR paradox leads to the important concept of quantum which manifests itself by three different phenomena: entanglement, steering, and Bell's nonlocality. Two well-known paradoxes related to Bell's nonlocality, i.e. the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger paradox and the Hardy paradox, have been widely studied and also experimentally confirmed. However, an experimental test of the EPR paradox is still lacking. The EPR paradox is essentially a steering paradox, and recently it has been mathematically formulated as a contradiction equality $k=1$ , thus making it amenable to an experimental verification. Moreover, based on the EPR paradox we also derive a generalized linear steering inequality. In this work, we perform the first experimental test of the EPR paradox in a two-qubit scenario, and also verify the corresponding generalized steering inequality, which has an advantage over the usual one by detecting more steerability of states. Experimental results confirm the theoretical predictions within the experimental errors, and provide a deeper understanding of foundation.The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox is one of the earliest paradoxes, arising from the lack of local realistic description of mechanics. The EPR paradox leads to the important concept of quantum which manifests itself by three different phenomena: entanglement, steering, and Bell's nonlocality. Two well-known paradoxes related to Bell's nonlocality, i.e. the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger paradox and the Hardy paradox, have been widely studied and also experimentally confirmed. However, an experimental test of the EPR paradox is still lacking. The EPR paradox is essentially a steering paradox, and recently it has been mathematically formulated as a contradiction equality $k=1$, thus making it amenable to an experimental verification. Moreover, based on the EPR paradox we also derive a generalized linear steering inequality. In this work, we perform the first experimental test of the EPR paradox in a two-qubit scenario, and also verify the corresponding generalized steering inequality, which has an advantage over the usual one by detecting more steerability of states. Experimental results confirm the theoretical predictions within the experimental errors, and provide a deeper understanding of foundation.

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Search for New Tests of the EPR Paradox from Elementary Particle Physics

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Steering paradox for Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen argument and its extended inequality

Tianfeng Feng, Changliang Ren, Qin Feng +4 more

The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR) paradox is one of the milestones in quantum foundations, arising from the lack of a local realistic description of quantum mechanics. The EPR paradox has stimulated an important concept of “quantum nonlocality,” which manifests itself in three types: quantum entanglement, quantum steering, and Bell’s nonlocality. Although Bell’s nonlocality is more often used to show “quantum nonlocality,” the original EPR paradox is essentially a steering paradox. In this work, we formulate the original EPR steering paradox into a contradiction equality, thus making it amenable to experimental verification. We perform an experimental test of the steering paradox in a two-qubit scenario. Furthermore, by starting from the steering paradox, we generate a generalized linear steering inequality and transform this inequality into a mathematically equivalent form, which is friendlier for experimental implementation, i.e., one may measure the observables only in the x , y , or z axis of the Bloch sphere, rather than other arbitrary directions. We also perform experiments to demonstrate this scheme. Within the experimental errors, the experimental results coincide with theoretical predictions. Our results deepen the understanding of quantum foundations and provide an efficient way to detect the steerability of quantum states.The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen (EPR) paradox is one of the milestones in quantum foundations, arising from the lack of a local realistic description of quantum mechanics. The EPR paradox has stimulated an important concept of “quantum nonlocality,” which manifests itself in three types: quantum entanglement, quantum steering, and Bell’s nonlocality. Although Bell’s nonlocality is more often used to show “quantum nonlocality,” the original EPR paradox is essentially a steering paradox. In this work, we formulate the original EPR steering paradox into a contradiction equality, thus making it amenable to experimental verification. We perform an experimental test of the steering paradox in a two-qubit scenario. Furthermore, by starting from the steering paradox, we generate a generalized linear steering inequality and transform this inequality into a mathematically equivalent form, which is friendlier for experimental implementation, i.e., one may measure the observables only in the x , y , or z axis of the Bloch sphere, rather than other arbitrary directions. We also perform experiments to demonstrate this scheme. Within the experimental errors, the experimental results coincide with theoretical predictions. Our results deepen the understanding of quantum foundations and provide an efficient way to detect the steerability of quantum states.

Photonics ResearchMar 19, 20214 citations

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, thus making it amenable to an experimental verification. Moreover, based on the EPR paradox we also derive a generalized linear steering inequality. In this work, we perform the first experimental test of the EPR paradox in a two-qubit scenario, and also verify the corresponding generalized steering inequality, which has an advantage over the usual one by detecting more steerability of states. Experimental results confirm the theoretical predictions within the experimental errors, and provide a deeper understanding of foundation.