TY  - JOUR
AU  - De Raedt, Hans
AU  - Michielsen, Kristel
AU  - Hess, Karl
TI  - The photon identification loophole in EPRB experiments: computer models with single-wing selection
JO  - Open physics
VL  - 15
IS  - 1
SN  - 2391-5471
CY  - Berlin
PB  - de Gruyter
M1  - FZJ-2017-07787
SP  - 713-733
PY  - 2017
AB  - Recent Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm experiments [M. Giustina et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 250401 (2015); L. K. Shalm et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 250402 (2015)] that claim to be loophole free are scrutinized. The combination of a digital computer and discrete-event simulation is used to construct a minimal but faithful model of the most perfected realization of these laboratory experiments. In contrast to prior simulations, all photon selections are strictly made, as they are in the actual experiments, at the local station and no other “post-selection” is involved. The simulation results demonstrate that a manifestly non-quantum model that identifies photons in the same local manner as in these experiments can produce correlations that are in excellent agreement with those of the quantum theoretical description of the corresponding thought experiment, in conflict with Bell’s theorem which states that this is impossible. The failure of Bell’s theorem is possible because of our recognition of the photon identification loophole. Such identification measurement-procedures are necessarily included in all actual experiments but are not included in the theory of Bell and his followers.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000417931400020
DO  - DOI:10.1515/phys-2017-0085
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/840233
ER  -