Extreme quantum entanglement in a superposition of macroscopically distinct states

N. David Mermin

Physical Review Letters · 1990 · 1.5K citations · 3 references

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Abstract

A Bell inequality is derived for a state of n spin-1/2 particles which superposes two macroscopically distinct states. Quantum mechanics violates this inequality by an amount that grows exponentially with n.

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