Testing Born's rule in quantum mechanics for three mutually exclusive events

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  • Immo Nathanael Sollner
  • Benjamin Gschösser
  • Patrick Mai
  • Benedikt Pressl
  • Zoltan Vörös
  • Gregor Weihs
We present a new experimental approach using a three-path interferometer and find a tighter empirical upper bound on possible violations of Born's Rule. A deviation from Born's rule would result in multi-order interference. Among the potential systematic errors that could lead to an apparent violation we specifically study the nonlinear response of our detectors and present ways to calibrate this error in order to obtain an even better bound.
Original languageEnglish
JournalFoundations of Physics
Volume42
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)742-751
Number of pages10
ISSN0015-9018
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2012

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