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A Scrutiny of Landmark Experiments Disproves Photonic Quantum Nonlocality

Version 1 : Received: 19 December 2022 / Approved: 20 December 2022 / Online: 20 December 2022 (08:44:06 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 1 June 2023 / Approved: 2 June 2023 / Online: 2 June 2023 (04:39:05 CEST)

How to cite: Vatarescu, A. A Scrutiny of Landmark Experiments Disproves Photonic Quantum Nonlocality. Preprints 2022, 2022120362. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202212.0362.v2 Vatarescu, A. A Scrutiny of Landmark Experiments Disproves Photonic Quantum Nonlocality. Preprints 2022, 2022120362. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202212.0362.v2

Abstract

A physical scrutiny of experimental results published in Physical Review Letters (December 2015, M. Giustina, et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 250401, and L. K. Shalm et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 250402) is undertaken. These articles reported that measured outcomes were fitted with quantum states possessing a dominant component of non-entangled photons, thereby contradicting their own claim of quantum nonlocality. With probabilities of photon detections lower than 0.1 %, the alleged quantum nonlocality cannot be classified as a resource for developing quantum computing devices, despite recent publicity. Experimental evidence of a feasible process for quantum-strong correlations has been identified (M. Iannuzzi, et al., Phys. Lett. A, 384 (9), 126200, 2020) in terms of correlations between independent and multi-photon states evaluated as Stokes vectors on the Poincaré sphere. As single-photon sources are not needed, the design and implementation of quantum computing operations will be significantly streamlined.

Keywords

quantum-strong correlations; quantum Rayleigh scattering; polarization Stokes vectors

Subject

Physical Sciences, Optics and Photonics

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Received: 2 June 2023
Commenter: Andre Vatarescu
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Comment: The contents of the article have been expanded and a few new references have been added or updated.
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