Analysis of Bell-Type Experiments and Its Local Realism

Koji Nagata¹, Tadao Nakamura²

¹Department of Physics, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea.
²Department of Information and Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan.

DOI: 10.4236/jamp.2015.37109                

Abstract

We investigate the violation factor of the original Bell-Mermin inequality. Until now, we have used an assumption that the results of measurement are . In this case, the maximum violation factor is as follows: and . The quantum predictions by n-partite Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger state violate the Bell-Mermin inequality by an amount that grows exponentially with n. Recently, a new measurement theory is proposed [K. Nagata and T. Nakamura, International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 49, 162 (2010)]. The values of measurement outcome are . Here we use the new measurement theory. We consider a multipartite GHZ state. We use the original Bell-Mermin inequality. It turns out that the original Bell-Mermin inequality is satisfied irrespective of the number of particles. In this case, the maximum violation factor is as follows: and . Thus the original Bell-Mermin inequality is satisfied by the new measurement theory. We propose the following conjecture: All the two-orthogonal-settings experimental correlation functions admit local realistic theories irrespective of a state if we use the new measurement theory.

Keywords

Quantum Nonlocality, Quantum Measurement Theory

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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