Proposed Experiment to Test Local Hidden-Variable Theories
John F. Clauser, Michael Horne, Abner Shimony +1 more
A theorem of Bell, proving that certain predictions of quantum mechanics are inconsistent with the entire family of local hidden-variable theories, is generalized so as to apply to realizable experiments. A proposed extension of the experiment of Kocher and Commins, on the polarization correlation of a pair of optical photons, will provide a decisive test between quantum mechanics and local hidden-variable theories.
Physical Review Letters•Oct 13, 1969•7,573 citations