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Phys. Rev. Lett. 65, 1838–1840 (1990)

Extreme quantum entanglement in a superposition of macroscopically distinct states

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N. David Mermin
Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-2501

Received 29 May 1990; published in the issue dated 8 October 1990

A Bell inequality is derived for a state of n spin-1/2 particles which superposes two macroscopically distinct states. Quantum mechanics violates this inequality by an amount that grows exponentially with n.

© 1990 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1838
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.65.1838
PACS:
03.65.Bz