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Experimental Test of Non-Local Realism Using a Fiber-Based Source of Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs

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Jingyun Fan, M D. Eisaman, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, J Chen, Alan L. Migdall

Abstract

We describe an experimental test of local realistic and non-local realistic theories using polarization-entangled two-photon singlet states created using a fiber-based polarization Sagnac interferometer. We show a violation of Bell s inequality in the Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt form by 15 standard deviations, thus excluding local hidden-variable theories, and a violation of a Leggett-type non-local hidden-variable inequality by 3 standard deviations, thus excluding a class of non-local hidden-variable theories.
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Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
Volume
77
Pub Type
Journals

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Keywords

accidental, Bell state, coincidence, four-wave mixing, Raman scattering, Sagnac interferometer
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Citation

Fan, J. , Eisaman, M. , Goldschmidt, E. , Chen, J. and Migdall, A. (2008), Experimental Test of Non-Local Realism Using a Fiber-Based Source of Polarization-Entangled Photon Pairs, Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=841112 (Accessed October 26, 2025)

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Created March 25, 2008, Updated February 19, 2017
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