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Experimental nonlocal and surreal Bohmian trajectories

Dylan H. Mahler, Lee A. Rozema, Kent Bonsma-Fisher, L. Vermeyden, Kevin J. Resch, Howard M. Wiseman, Aephraim M. Steinberg

Published Feb 19, 2016• 24 citations
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Abstract

Researchers reconstruct trajectories of two entangled photons showing the nonlocal and “surreal” nature of the trajectories in Bohmian mechanics.
DOI
10.1126/science.1501466

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