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The EPR paradox has evolved a good deal during the 35 years between the original paper of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen and Wigner’s probabilistic version of Bell’s inequality in 1970. It began as an experimentally impossible gedankenexperiment—with such physical idealizations as monochromatic plane waves and Dirac 8-functions—in which the fundamental reality criterion was formulated. Interference was not explicitly involved. Phase relations in configuration or tensor product spaces were given a central role by Furry and Schrödinger. Bohm simplified the paradox by reformulating it in terms of dichotomic observables regarding spin-½ particles, and addressed the experimental issue with Aharonov. Then in 1965 Bell deduced his celebrated inequality from the principles of local realism, and showed that it was grossly violated by quantum mechanical interference. Stronger inequalities and experiments to test them soon followed.
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Afriat, A., Selleri, F. (1999). Early Formulations. In: The Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen Paradox in Atomic, Nuclear, and Particle Physics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0254-2_1
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