Noise and Bell's inequality

David K. Ferry, Laszlo B. Kish

Published 2010-08-03, updated 2010-08-13Version 2

From the beginning of quantum mechanics, there has been a discussion about the concept of reality, as exemplified by the EPR paradox. To many, the idea of the paradox and the possibility of local hidden variables was dismissed by the Bell inequality. Yet, there remains considerable evidence that this inequality can be violated even by classical systems, so that experiments showing quantum behavior and the violation of the inequality must be questioned. Here, we demonstrate that classical optical polarization experiments based upon noise in the system can be shown to violate the Bell inequality.