2013/11/18 by Peter Bierhorst, Bierhorst, Peter
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Philosophy and History of Science #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1311.4488
openalex publication_date 2013/11/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recent experiments have reached detection efficiencies sufficient to close the detection loophole with photons. Both experiments ran multiple successive trials in fixed measurement configurations, rather than randomly re-setting the measurement configurations before each measurement trial. This opens a new potential loophole for a local hidden variable theory. The loophole invalidates one proposed method of statistical analysis of the experimental results, as demonstrated in this note. Therefore a different analysis will be necessary to definitively assert that these experiments are subject only to the locality loophole.