The standard fair sampling assumption is not necessary to test local realism

Details The standard fair sampling assumption is not necessary to test local realism The standard fair sampling assumption is not necessary to test local realism

2007-12-15

arxiv.org/abs/0712.2490v2

Phys. Rev. A 81, 012109 (2010)

Physics

Quantum Physics

12 pages, includes experimental proposal

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.81.012109

Almost all Bell-inequality experiments to date have used postselection, and therefore relied on the fair sampling assumption for their interpretation. The standard form of the fair sampling assumption is that the loss is independent of the measurement settings, so the ensemble of detected systems provides a fair statistical sample of the total ensemble. This is often assumed to be needed to interpret Bell inequality experiments as ruling out hidden-variable theories. Here we show that it is not necessary; the loss can depend on measurement settings, provided the detection efficiency factorises as a function of the measurement settings and any hidden variable. This condition implies that Tsirelson's bound must be satisfied for entangled states. On the other hand, we show that it is possible for Tsirelson's bound to be violated while the CHSH-Bell inequality still holds for unentangled states, and present an experimentally feasible example.

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