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Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 220403 (2007) [4 pages]

Detection Loophole in Asymmetric Bell Experiments

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Nicolas Brunner*, Nicolas Gisin, Valerio Scarani, and Christoph Simon
Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland

Received 13 February 2007; published 31 May 2007

The problem of closing the detection loophole with asymmetric systems, such as entangled atom-photon pairs, is addressed. We show that, for the Bell inequality I3322, a minimal detection efficiency of 43% can be tolerated for one of the particles, if the other one is always detected. We also study the influence of noise and discuss the prospects of experimental implementation.

© 2007 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.220403
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.220403
PACS:
03.65.Ud

*Electronic address: nicolas.brunner@physics.unige.ch