HIDDEN-VARIABLES AND THE 2 THEOREMS OF BELL,JOHN

Authors
Citation
Nd. Mermin, HIDDEN-VARIABLES AND THE 2 THEOREMS OF BELL,JOHN, Reviews of modern physics, 65(3), 1993, pp. 803-815
Citations number
26
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
ISSN journal
00346861
Volume
65
Issue
3
Year of publication
1993
Part
1
Pages
803 - 815
Database
ISI
SICI code
0034-6861(1993)65:3<803:HAT2TO>2.0.ZU;2-Z
Abstract
Although skeptical of the prohibitive power of no-hidden-variables the orems, John Bell was himself responsible for the two most important on es. I describe some recent versions of the lesser known of the two (fa miliar to experts as the ''Kochen-Specker theorem'') which have transp arently simple proofs. One of the new versions can be converted withou t additional analysis into a powerful form of the very much better kno wn ''Bell's Theorem,'' thereby clarifying the conceptual link between these two results of Bell.