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{{Infobox paper
| title = Atomic Cascade Experiments With Two-Channel Polarizers and Quantum Mechanical Nonlocality
| author = [[M Ardehali]]
| keywords = [[atomic cascade]], [[two-channel polarizers]], [[photons]], [[quantum mechanics]], [[nonlocality]], [[wave function]]
| published = 1994
| journal = [[None]]
| pages = 545-554
}}

==Abstract==

In 1935, Einstein, Podolsky, Rosen (EPR) used their famous criteria of realism and locality to conclude that the wave function does not provide a complete description of physical reality. Their argument (adapted to Bohm's gedanken experiment for a pair of photons in the singlet state) is based on the following three premises:

1 - Quantum mechanical (QM) perfect correlations: If the polarization of photons 1 and 2 are measured along the same axis, then the outcomes are perfectly (anti) correlated.

2- EPR's criterion of realism: "If without in any way disturbing a system, we can predict with certainty (i.e., with probability equal to unity) the value of a physical quantity, then there exists an element of physical reality corresponding to this physical quantity."

3 - Einstein's locality: "But on one supposition, we should, in my opinion absolutely hold fast: The real factual situation of the system S<sub>2</sub> is independent of what is done with the system S<sub>1</sub> which is spatially separated from the former."

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