Incompatibility of Macroscopic Local Realism with Quantum Mechanics in Measurements with Macroscopic Uncertainties

M. D. Reid
Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2765 – Published 27 March 2000
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Abstract

We show that quantum mechanics predicts a contradiction with local hidden variable theories for photon number measurements which have limited resolving power, to the point of imposing an uncertainty in the photon number result which is macroscopic in absolute terms. We show how this can be interpreted as a failure of a new premise, macroscopic local realism.

  • Received 19 February 1999

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.84.2765

©2000 American Physical Society

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M. D. Reid

  • Physics Department, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

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Vol. 84, Iss. 13 — 27 March 2000

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