2016•Conference on Lasers and Electro-OpticsRequires access

Significant-Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism with Entangled Photons

Marissa Giustina, Marijn A. M. Versteegh, Sören Wengerowsky, Johannes Handsteiner, Armin Hochrainer, Kevin Phelan, Fabian Steinlechner, Johannes Kofler, J P Larsson, Carlos Abellán, Waldimar Amaya, Valerio Pruneri, Morgan W. Mitchell, J. Beyer, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana E. Lita, Lynden K. Shalm, Sae Woo Nam, T. Scheidl, Rupert Ursin, Bernhard Wittmann, Anton Zeilinger

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We report an experimental violation of a Bell inequality with strong statistical significance. Our experiment employs polarization measurements on entangled single photons and closes the locality, freedom-of-choice, fair-sampling, coincidence-time, and memory loopholes simultaneously.

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Key concepts: Quantum nonlocality, Photon entanglement, Photon, Bell's theorem, Coincidence, Spontaneous parametric down-conversion, Physics, Polarization (electrochemistry)