Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 160401 (2002) [4 pages]

Test of Local Realism with Entangled Kaon Pairs and without Inequalities

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Albert Bramon1 and Gianni Garbarino2
1Grup de Física Teòrica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, E-08193 Bellaterra, Spain
2Departament d’Estructura i Constituents de la Matèria, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain

Received 17 May 2002; published 30 September 2002

We propose the use of entangled pairs of neutral kaons, considered as a promising tool to close the well known loopholes affecting generic Bell’s inequality tests, in a specific Hardy-type experiment. Hardy’s contradiction without inequalities between local realism and quantum mechanics can be translated into a feasible experiment by requiring ideal detection efficiencies for only one of the observables to be alternatively measured. Neutral kaons are near to fulfill this requirement and therefore to close the efficiency loophole.


©2002 The American Physical Society

URL: http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.160401
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.160401
PACS: 03.65.Ud, 14.40.Aq

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