arXiv:quant-ph/0409129 · Physical Review Letters

Comment on “Bell's Theorem without Inequalities and without Alignments”

Luca Marinatto

Published Sep 17, 2004• 1 citation

Abstract

In this Comment we show that Cabello's proof of Bell's theorem without inequalities [Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 230403 (2003)] does not exhibit two of the three "remarkable properties" which the proof is claimed to possess. More precisely it is our purpose to show that property (c) of Cabello's proof, stating that ``local observables can be measured by means of tests on individual qubits" is definitely false since it has been obtained by a wrong use of the basic rules of the quantum formalism, while property (b), stating that ``distant local setups do not need to be aligned since the require perfect correlations are achieved for any local rotation of the setups", is also wrong due to the failure of validity of property (c).

DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.93.128901

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