Experiments towards falsification of noncontextual hidden variable theories.

Phys Rev Lett

Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Universitat Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.

Published: June 2000

We present two experiments testing the hypothesis of noncontextual hidden variables. The first one is based on observation of two-photon pseudo-Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger correlations, with two of the originally three particles mimicked by the polarization degree of freedom and the spatial degree of freedom of a single photon. The second one, a single-photon experiment, utilizes the same trick to emulate two particle correlations, and is an "event ready" test of a Bell-like inequality, derived from the noncontextuality assumption. Modulo fair sampling, the data falsify noncontextual hidden variables.

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