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Bell inequality and the locality loophole: Active versus passive switches

✍ Scribed by N Gisin; H Zbinden

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 108 KB
Volume: 264
Category: Article
ISSN: 0375-9601
DOI: 10.1016/s0375-9601(99)00807-5

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✦ Synopsis

All experimental tests of the violation of Bell's inequality suffer from some loopholes. We show that the locality loophole is not independent of the detection loophole: in experiments using low efficient detectors, the locality loophole can be closed equivalently using active or passive switches.