Determination of hidden-variable models reproducing the spin singlet

A Di Lorenzo - Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical …, 2012 - APS
Physical Review A—Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 2012APS
The experimental violation of the Bell inequality establishes necessary but not sufficient
conditions that any theory must obey. Namely, a theory compatible with the experimental
observations can satisfy at most two of the three hypotheses at the basis of Bell's theorem:
free will, no signaling, and outcome independence. Quantum mechanics satisfies the first
two hypotheses but not the latter. Experiments not only violate the Bell inequality, but show
an excellent agreement with quantum mechanics. This fact restricts further the class of …
The experimental violation of the Bell inequality establishes necessary but not sufficient conditions that any theory must obey. Namely, a theory compatible with the experimental observations can satisfy at most two of the three hypotheses at the basis of Bell's theorem: free will, no signaling, and outcome independence. Quantum mechanics satisfies the first two hypotheses but not the latter. Experiments not only violate the Bell inequality, but show an excellent agreement with quantum mechanics. This fact restricts further the class of admissible theories. In this work, the author determines the form of the hidden-variable models that reproduce the quantum mechanical predictions for a spin singlet while satisfying both the hypotheses of free will and no signaling. Two classes of hidden-variable models are given as an example, and a general recipe to build infinitely many possible models is provided.
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