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Shalm and colleagues reported a Bell-inequality violation using polarization-entangled photon pairs, rapid setting choices, spacelike separation and efficient superconducting detectors. For a five-pulse aggregation the source table reports a local-realism p-value of 5.9 × 10⁻⁹, or 2.3 × 10⁻⁷ under its stated excess-predictability model.
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Scientific scope
The test addresses locality and fair-sampling loopholes together under assumptions about timing, recorded outcomes and measurement-setting independence. No finite experiment removes every possible assumption. Five-pulse and other analyses reuse the same data rather than independent experiments; raw statistical replay and the separate supplementary material were not examined. The five-pulse p-value is printed as 5.8 × 10⁻⁹ in the text and figure but 5.9 × 10⁻⁹ in the abstract and table. The final published paper confirms the same 34-person printed byline as v1 and explicitly marks the second and third authors as equal contributors. Its abstract and table print 5.9 × 10⁻⁹ while its text and figure print 5.8 × 10⁻⁹; this source-internal difference remains uncorrected. The final reported run was selected as the most stable among six configurations. The 2015 journal figure 3 caption says pulses 1–11 are spacelike separated, while both author-preprint v1 and 2016 v2 figure 3 say pulse 1 is not and pulses 2–11 are. The reported five-pulse aggregate uses pulses 4–8, so this textual discrepancy does not concern inclusion of pulse 1 in that aggregate. The independent source of this discrepancy has not been checked.
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- A strong loophole-free test of local realism
- Strong Loophole-Free Test of Local Realism
- A strong loophole-free test of local realism (author preprint v2)
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Lynden K. Shalm; Evan Meyer-Scott; Bradley G. Christensen; Peter Bierhorst; Michael A. Wayne; Martin J. Stevens; Thomas Gerrits; Scott Glancy; Deny R. Hamel; Michael S. Allman; Kevin J. Coakley; Shellee D. Dyer; Carson Hodge; Adriana E. Lita; Varun B. Verma; Camilla Lambrocco; Edward Tortorici; Alan L. Migdall; Yanbao Zhang; Daniel R. Kumor; William H. Farr; Francesco Marsili; Matthew D. Shaw; Jeffrey A. Stern; Carlos Abellán; Waldimar Amaya; Valerio Pruneri; Thomas Jennewein; Morgan W. Mitchell; Paul G. Kwiat; Joshua C. Bienfang; Richard P. Mirin; Emanuel Knill; Sae Woo Nam
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Photonic Bell test with spacelike separation and high detection efficiency
Shalm and colleagues reported a Bell-inequality violation using polarization-entangled photon pairs, rapid setting choices, spacelike separation and efficient superconducting detectors. For a five-pulse aggregation the source table reports a local-realism p-value of 5.9 × 10⁻⁹, or 2.3 × 10⁻⁷ under its stated excess-predictability model.
Scientific scope
The test addresses locality and fair-sampling loopholes together under assumptions about timing, recorded outcomes and measurement-setting independence. No finite experiment removes every possible assumption. Five-pulse and other analyses reuse the same data rather than independent experiments; raw statistical replay and the separate supplementary material were not examined. The five-pulse p-value is printed as 5.8 × 10⁻⁹ in the text and figure but 5.9 × 10⁻⁹ in the abstract and table. The final published paper confirms the same 34-person printed byline as v1 and explicitly marks the second and third authors as equal contributors. Its abstract and table print 5.9 × 10⁻⁹ while its text and figure print 5.8 × 10⁻⁹; this source-internal difference remains uncorrected. The final reported run was selected as the most stable among six configurations. The 2015 journal figure 3 caption says pulses 1–11 are spacelike separated, while both author-preprint v1 and 2016 v2 figure 3 say pulse 1 is not and pulses 2–11 are. The reported five-pulse aggregate uses pulses 4–8, so this textual discrepancy does not concern inclusion of pulse 1 in that aggregate. The independent source of this discrepancy has not been checked.
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People and systems
Lynden K. Shalm; Evan Meyer-Scott; Bradley G. Christensen; Peter Bierhorst; Michael A. Wayne; Martin J. Stevens; Thomas Gerrits; Scott Glancy; Deny R. Hamel; Michael S. Allman; Kevin J. Coakley; Shellee D. Dyer; Carson Hodge; Adriana E. Lita; Varun B. Verma; Camilla Lambrocco; Edward Tortorici; Alan L. Migdall; Yanbao Zhang; Daniel R. Kumor; William H. Farr; Francesco Marsili; Matthew D. Shaw; Jeffrey A. Stern; Carlos Abellán; Waldimar Amaya; Valerio Pruneri; Thomas Jennewein; Morgan W. Mitchell; Paul G. Kwiat; Joshua C. Bienfang; Richard P. Mirin; Emanuel Knill; Sae Woo Nam
These are the listed authors of the cited contribution sources. Paper authorship does not quantify individual effort. An incomplete list is explicitly marked; same names are not automatically merged.