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1964

On the Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox

John S. Bell

Derives an inequality that any theory of hidden local variables must satisfy, and shows quantum mechanics predicts its violation — making the EPR debate experimentally decidable.

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Quantum EntanglementRyszard Horodecki, Paweł Horodecki, Michał Horodecki & Karol Horodecki, 2009Surveys entanglement as a physical resource — its measures, its criteria for detection and its distillation — as the subfield had grown by 2009.

Filed under Quantum Mechanics in Physics.