Optimal Statistical Analyses of Bell Experiments

Autor: Richard D. Gill
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: AppliedMath, Vol 3, Iss 2, Pp 446-460 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2673-9909
DOI: 10.3390/appliedmath3020023
Popis: We show how both smaller and more reliable p-values can be computed in Bell-type experiments by using statistical deviations from no-signalling equalities to reduce statistical noise in the estimation of Bell’s S or Eberhard’s J. Further improvement was obtained by using the Wilks likelihood ratio test based on the four tetranomially distributed vectors of counts of the four different outcome combinations, one 4-vector for each of the four setting combinations. The methodology was illustrated by application to the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2015 and 2016 performed in Delft and Munich, at NIST, and in Vienna, respectively, and also to the earlier (1998) Innsbruck experiment of Weihs et al. and the recent (2022) Munich experiment of Zhang et al., which investigates the use of a loophole-free Bell experiment as part of a protocol for device-independent quantum key distribution (DIQKD).
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