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On the Conclusive Tests of Local Realism and Pseudoscalar Mesons

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Many beautiful experiments have been addressed to test standard quantum mechanics against local realistic models. Even if a strong evidence favouring standard quantum mechanics is emerged, a conclusive experiment is still lacking, because of low detection efficiencies. Recently, experiments based on pseudoscalar mesons have been proposed as a way for obtaining a conclusive experiment. In this paper, we investigate if this result can effectively be obtained. Our conclusions, based on a careful analysis of the proposed set ups, are that this will not be possible due to intrinsic limitations of these kind of experiments.

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Genovese, M., Novero, C. & Predazzi, E. On the Conclusive Tests of Local Realism and Pseudoscalar Mesons. Foundations of Physics 32, 589–605 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015036400296

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