Physics – Quantum Physics
Scientific paper
2008-07-15
J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 41 (2008) 505301
Physics
Quantum Physics
14 pages, no figures. Section 2.2 modified by generalizing the model to arbitrary initial states
Scientific paper
10.1088/1751-8113/41/50/505301
Recent experiments of Groeblacher et al. proved the violation of a Leggett-type inequality that was claimed to be valid for a broad class of non-local hidden-variable theories. The impossibility of constructing a non-local and realistic theory, unless it entails highly counterintuitive features, seems thus to have been experimentally proved. This would bring us close to a definite refutation of realism. Indeed, realism was proved to be also incompatible with locality, according to a series of experiments testing Bell inequalities. The present paper addresses the said experiments of Groeblacher et al. and presents an explicit, contextual and realistic, model that reproduces the predictions of quantum mechanics. It thus violates the Leggett-type inequality that was established with the aim of ruling out a supposedly broad class of non-local models. We can thus conclude that plausible contextual, realistic, models are still tenable. This restates the possibility of a future completion of quantum mechanics by a realistic and contextual theory which is not in a class containing only highly counterintuitive models. The class that was ruled out by the experiments of Groeblacher et al. is thus proved to be a limited one, arbitrarily separating models that physically belong in the same class.
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