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Incompatibility of macroscopic local realism with quantum mechanics in measurements with macroscopic uncertainties

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posted on 2024-07-11, 08:49 authored by Margaret ReidMargaret Reid
We show that quantum mechanics predicts a contradiction with local hidden variable theories for photon number measurements which have limited resolving power, to the point of imposing an uncertainty in the photon number result which is macroscopic in absolute terms. We show how this can be interpreted as a failure of a new premise, macroscopic local realism.

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0031-9007

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Physical Review Letters

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84

Issue

13

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American Physical Society

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Copyright © 2000 American Physical Society. The published version is reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher.

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eng

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