Proposed Experimental Tests of the Bell-Kochen-Specker Theorem

Adán Cabello and Guillermo García-Alcaine
Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1797 – Published 2 March 1998
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Abstract

For a two-particle two-state system, sets of compatible propositions exist for which quantum mechanics and noncontextual hidden-variable theories make conflicting predictions for every individual system whatever its quantum state. This permits a simple all-or-nothing state-independent experimental verification of the Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem.

  • Received 10 September 1997

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.80.1797

©1998 American Physical Society

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Adán Cabello*

  • Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Sevilla, 41012 Sevilla, Spain

Guillermo García-Alcaine

  • Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain

  • *Electronic address: fite1z1@sis.ucm.es
  • Electronic address: fite114@sis.ucm.es

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Vol. 80, Iss. 9 — 2 March 1998

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