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- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!riacs!danforth
- From: danforth@riacs.edu (Douglas G. Danforth)
- Subject: Bell dethrowned, part II
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.180538.10990@riacs.edu>
- Keywords: EPR, Bell, Aspect, Quantum mechanics
- Sender: news@riacs.edu
- Organization: RIACS, NASA Ames Research Center
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 18:05:38 GMT
- Lines: 102
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-
- I see that it is necessary to slightly expand my previous posting to
- explicitly mention the issue of joint conditionalization. The model and
- conclusions are unchanged.
-
-
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- PART II
- OF
-
- A LOCAL HIDDEN VARIABLES MODEL THAT EXPLOITS DETECTOR INEFFICIENCY
- WHICH EXACTLY REPRODUCES THE QUANTUM MECHANICAL PREDICTION
- FOR TWO PARTICLE CORRELATIONS
-
-
- Douglas G. Danforth
- July 27, 1992
-
-
-
- Aspect [2] defines a quantity E(a,b) to estimate P(a,b) using detector counts
- R(a,b) as:
-
- R++(a,b) + R--(a,b) - R+-(a,b) - R-+(a,b)
- E(a,b) = ----------------------------------------- (II.1)
- R++(a,b) + R--(a,b) + R+-(a,b) + R-+(a,b)
-
-
- The corresponding theoretical expression is:
-
-
- /dv f(v) A(a,v)B(b,v)
- P(a,b) = ---------------------- (II.2)
- 2 2
- /du f(u) A(a,u)B(b,u)
-
-
- which differs from Bell's expression by the denominator. For perfect
- detectors the square of A and B is 1 which coupled with the normalization of
- the density, f, leads to a denominator value of 1. For imperfect detectors
- there is a third state of nondetection, 0. A and B, in this case, satisfy
-
- 3 3
- A = A, B = B (imperfect detector condition) (II.3)
-
- which holds for all detector angles 'a' and 'b' and all hidden variable
- values v.
-
- The inclusion of the denominator expresses the conditionalization on the
- distribution function f(v) to the set of points J where joint detection
- occurs
-
- 2 2
- J = {v| A(a,v) = 1 AND B(b,v) = 1}. (II.4)
-
- The denomintor in (II.2) for imperfect detectors is no longer unity. For
- the crown model the denominator is a constant, j, equal to the area of joint
- overlap of the two crowns disregarding the sign of the overlap. This
- overlap is simply the sum of the areas of the 8 scallops.
-
- 2 2 pi/2
- j = /dv f(v) A(a,v)B(b,v) = 8 /dx g(x)
- 0
-
- pi/2 (II.5)
- j = /dx sin(2x) = 1/2
- 0
-
- The numerator in equation (II.2) is calculated as
-
- pi/2 a-b
- /dv f(v) A(a,v)B(b,v) = 8/dx g(x) - 8/dx g(x)
- a-b 0
-
- pi/2 a-b
- = /dx sin(2x) - /dx sin(2x)
- a-b 0
-
- 2 2
- = 1/2 cos(a-b) - 1/2 sin(a-b)
-
- = 1/2 cos2(a-b) (II.6)
-
-
- (The factor of 1/2 was missing from equation (8) in the previous posting).
-
- The theoretical correlation function becomes
-
- /dv f(v) A(a,v)B(b,v)
- P(a,b) = ----------------------
- j
-
-
- 1/2 cos2(a-b)
- P(a,b) = ------------- = cos2(a-b), (II.7)
- 1/2
-
-
- as before.
-
- I trust this clarifies the previous posting.
-
-