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Phys. Rev. A 63, 022111 (2001) [10 pages]

Experimental test of nonlocal quantum correlation in relativistic configurations

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H. Zbinden, J. Brendel, N. Gisin, and W. Tittel
Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, 1211 Geneve 4, Switzerland

Received 5 July 2000; published 17 January 2001

We report on an experimental investigation of the tension between quantum nonlocality and relativity. Entangled photons are sent via an optical fiber network to two villages near Geneva, separated by more than 10 km where they are analyzed by interferometers. The photon pair source is set as precisely as possible in the center so that the two photons arrive at the detectors within a time interval of less than 5 ps (corresponding to a path length difference of less than 1 mm). One detector is set in motion so that both detectors, each in its own inertial reference frame, are first to do the measurement! The data always reproduces the quantum correlations, making it thus more difficult to consider the projection postulate as a compact description of real collapses of the wave function.

© 2001 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.63.022111
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.63.022111
PACS:
03.65.Ta

See Also

Comment: S. C. Tiwari, Comment on “Experimental test of nonlocal quantum correlation in relativistic configurations”, Phys. Rev. A 65, 016101 (2001).