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Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 060403 (2009) [4 pages]

Failure of Local Realism Revealed by Extremely-Coarse-Grained Measurements

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Hyunseok Jeong1,2, Mauro Paternostro3, and Timothy C. Ralph1
1Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, Department of Physics, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Qld 4072, Australia
2Center for Subwavelength Optics and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul, 151-742, Korea
3School of Mathematics and Physics, The Queen’s University, Belfast, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom

Received 20 June 2008; revised 18 November 2008; published 12 February 2009

We show that failure of local realism can be revealed to observers for whom only extremely-coarse-grained measurements are available. In our instances, Bell’s inequality is violated even up to the maximum limit while both the local measurements and the initial local states under scrutiny approach the classical limit. Furthermore, we can observe failure of local realism when an inequality enforced by nonlocal realistic theories is satisfied. This suggests that locality alone may be violated while realism cannot be excluded for specific observables and states. Small-scale experimental demonstration of our examples may be possible in the foreseeable future.

© 2009 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.060403
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.060403
PACS:
03.65.Ud, 03.65.Sq, 03.65.Ta, 42.50.Xa