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Bell experiment


Experiments on entangled pairs or triplets of photons can be used to test the notion of physical realism. In the original Bell-type experiments, both photons of an entangled pair have the same linear polarization for parallel polarizers. But for polarizers oriented at a small angle with respect to each other, as shown, the same result is more often obtained for both photons than would be permitted if polarization were a real local property of the photons.

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