Distinguishing three-body from two-body nonseparability by a Bell-type inequality

George Svetlichny

Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields · 1987 · 672 citations · 13 references

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Abstract

We derive an inequality, violated by quantum mechanics, that in a three-body system can detect three-body correlations that cannot be reduced to mixtures of two-body ones related locally to the third body.

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