arXiv:quant-ph/9812029

Locality Is An Unnecessary Assumption of Bell's Theorem

H. Razmi, Mehdi Golshani

Published Dec 14, 1998• 0 citations

Abstract

Without imposing the locality condition,it is shown that quantum mechanics cannot reproduce all the predictions of a special stochastic realistic model used in certain spin-correlation experiments.This shows that the so-called locality condition is an unnecessary assumption of Bell's theorem.

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9812029

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