Abstract
We show that paradoxical consequences of violations
of Bell's inequality are induced by the use of an unsuitable
probabilistic description for the EPR-Bohm-Bell experiment. The
conventional description (due to Bell) is based on a
combination of statistical data collected for different settings
of polarization beam splitters (PBSs).
In fact, such data consists of some conditional probabilities
which only partially define a probability space.
Ignoring this conditioning leads to
apparent contradictions in the classical
probabilistic model (due to Kolmogorov). We
show how to make a completely consistent probabilistic model
by taking into account the probabilities of selecting the
settings of the PBSs. Our model matches both the experimental data and
is consistent with classical probability theory.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | AIP Proceedings |
Publisher | American Institute of Physics |
Publication date | 2008 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Event | Foundations of Probability and Physics-5 - Växjö, Sweden Duration: 1 Jan 2008 → … |
Conference
Conference | Foundations of Probability and Physics-5 |
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City | Växjö, Sweden |
Period | 01/01/2008 → … |
Keywords
- EPR-Bohm-Bell experiment