Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 250401 (2003) [4 pages]

Experimental Test of the Kochen-Specker Theorem with Single Photons

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Yun-Feng Huang^1,*, Chuan-Feng Li¹, Yong-Sheng Zhang^1,†, Jian-Wei Pan^1,2,‡, and Guang-Can Guo^1,§
¹Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, CAS, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China, 230026
²Department of Modern Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, CAS, Hefei, Anhui, People’s Republic of China, 230027

Received 21 November 2002; revised 7 April 2003; published 23 June 2003

Using the spontaneous parametric down-conversion process in a type-I phase matching beta-barium-borate crystal as a single photon source, we perform an all-or-nothing–type Kochen-Specker experiment proposed by Simon et al. [ Phys. Rev. Lett. 85 1783 (2000)] to verify whether noncontextual hidden variables or quantum mechanics is right. The results strongly agree with quantum mechanics.

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.250401

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.250401

PACS:

03.65.Ud, 42.50.Xa, 42.65.Lm

^*Email address: hyf@mail.ustc.edu.cn

^†Email address: yshzhang@ustc.edu.cn

^‡Email address: pan@ap.univie.ac.at

^§Email address: gcguo@ustc.edu.cn

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 250401 (2003) [4 pages]

Experimental Test of the Kochen-Specker Theorem with Single Photons