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Paper   IPM / P / 7175
School of Physics
  Title:   The Inconsistency of Outcome Independent Hidden Variable Theories
  Author(s): 
1.  A. Shafiee
2.  M. Golshani
  Status:   Preprint
  Journal:
  No.:  0
  Year:  1999
  Supported by:  IPM
  Abstract:
We have previously shown that in the context of an ideal Bohm's version of the EPR thought experiment, there is no outcome independent hidden variable theory which can reproduce all the predictions of quantum mechanics [IPM/P-1999/041]. Here, we want to show that in any experiment (ideal or actual) involving two conjugate variables, the condition of outcome independence is violated at the level of a causal hidden variable theory, whenever the exchangeability condition holds for quantum conditional probabilities in the ideal case.

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