Ben6993 wrote:To Heinera: I will also look at your last post in detail given more time, and get back to you. At the moment your position seems to me to be that one cannot achieve a correlation of 0.7071 based on data reported in a table. If one could do that it would already have been done in the Randi challenge, so no surprises there. The many recent simulations all seem to have generated correlations of about 0.7 which are good enough to win the Nobel prize, except for the snag of the 'loophole' interpretations. But none of the simulations AFAIK made self-standing tables of the data which could then be used to generate the correlations in a Randi-like challenge.
Ben6993 wrote:To Minkwe: I will try to follow your last post in detail given more time, and will get back again later. But in general terms I do not follow it at the moment. I may not understand CHSH fully but as it seems to me right now, one could divide the CHSH statistic by 4 and use it as an estimate of the average correlation over the four sets of data. It would have a maximum of +1 but there is no need to look beyond 0.7071. A correlation of 0.61 would be good enough for Joy. I expect the outcome to focus on either 0.5 or 0.7071, and any deviation would be experimental error.
In the many simulations completed, the abs value of the correlation for angle(a-b) = 45 or 135 degrees is very near to 0.7071. An experimental outcome like that would give Joy success. This does not correspond exactly to CSHS because the difference of 45 degrees in (at least some of) the simulations can arise in many different ways, eg (a,b) = (65, 20 degrees) or (165,120). I do not yet understand why limiting (a,b) to a few particular values undermines confidence in the calculation of the correlation of 0.7071. The CHSH statistic seems to me to be very related to the average correlation.
My proposed code to analyse the experimental data is
## I use mathematician's notation: theta is the azimuthal angle, phi is the polar
## (aka zenith) angle; both measured in radians.
## Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_coordinates
## Since my measurement directions all lie in equatorial plane I just extract "theta"
AliceDirections <-
read.table("http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~gill/AliceDirections.txt")
names(AliceDirections) <- c("theta", "phi")
head(AliceDirections) ## N pairs theta, phi (N rows, 2 columns)
NAlice <- nrow(AliceDirections)
NAlice
AliceTheta <- AliceDirections$theta # Alice's azimuthal angles
head(AliceTheta)
BobDirections <-
read.table("http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~gill/BobDirections.txt")
names(BobDirections) <- c("theta", "phi")
head(BobDirections)
NBob <- nrow(BobDirections)
NBob
if (NAlice != NBob) print("Error: particle numbers don't match") else
print("Go ahead!")
BobTheta <- BobDirections$theta # Bob's azimuthal angles
head(BobTheta)
## First pair of measurement directions
Alpha <- 0 * pi / 180
Beta <- 45 * pi / 180
A <- sign(cos(AliceTheta - Alpha))
B <- - sign(cos(BobTheta - Beta))
E11 <- mean(A * B)
## Second pair of measurement directions
Alpha <- 0 * pi / 180
Beta <- 135 * pi / 180
A <- sign(cos(AliceTheta - Alpha))
B <- - sign(cos(BobTheta - Beta))
E12 <- mean(A * B)
## Third pair of measurement directions
Alpha <- 90 * pi / 180
Beta <- 45 * pi / 180
A <- sign(cos(AliceTheta - Alpha))
B <- - sign(cos(BobTheta - Beta))
E21 <- mean(A * B)
## Fourth pair of measurement directions
Alpha <- 90 * pi / 180
Beta <- 135 * pi / 180
A <- sign(cos(AliceTheta - Alpha))
B <- - sign(cos(BobTheta - Beta))
E22 <- mean(A * B)
CHSH <- E12 - E11 - E21 - E22
CHSH
if (CHSH > 2.4) print("Congratulations, Joy") else
print("Congratulations, Richard")
## Another experiment
AliceTheta <- runif(1000, 0, 360) * pi / 180
BobTheta <- - AliceTheta
Delta <- seq(from = 0, to = 360, by = 10) * pi / 180
Correlation <- numeric(length(Delta))
A <- sign(cos(AliceTheta))
i <- 0
for (delta in Delta) {
i <- i+1
B <- - sign(cos(BobTheta - delta))
Correlation[i] <- mean(A * B)
}
plot(Correlation)
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For the record, let me repeat that equation (16) of my attached
experimental paper describes exactly how the expectation values
E(a, b), E(a', b), E(a, b'), and E(a', b') are to be computed in my
proposed experiment. Four separate sums are to be calculated as
follows
E(a, b) = 1/N Sum_j A_j B_j ,
E(a, b') = 1/N Sum_j A_j B'_j ,
E(a', b) = 1/N Sum_j A'_j B_j ,
and
E(a', b') = 1/N Sum_j A'_j B'_j .
It is a matter of indifference whether N here is chosen to be the same
or different for each of the four alternatives.
The experimental procedure described in my paper is unambiguous.
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Joy Christian wrote:I am not sure what all the fuss is about.
Why are people getting excited about producing little computer programs which do nothing more than implement four elementary mathematical equations (the four equations below) which I can write in literally 20 seconds?
Heinera wrote:Joy Christian wrote:I am not sure what all the fuss is about.
Why are people getting excited about producing little computer programs which do nothing more than implement four elementary mathematical equations (the four equations below) which I can write in literally 20 seconds?
Because in order to raise money for the experiment by crowd funding, donors would ask for proof of concept. "I hear some people are saying that it is mathematically impossible to generate quantum correlations from a list of pairs of vector in the way you specify. If that is true, the whole experiment will be pointless, of course. So can you show us a hypothetical list that generates the results you hope to see?"
Now you have the tools to go hunting for that list.
Joy Christian wrote:No need to go hunting. You can find several such lists on my blog.
gill1109 wrote:http://rpubs.com/gill1109/Wireframe
Joy Christian wrote:gill1109 wrote:http://rpubs.com/gill1109/Wireframe
Nice graphics! I haven't checked the four "red" points, but I am sure someone will.
Can you superimpose the two 3D plots and colour the four points differently so that we can immediately see the difference in the respective predictions?
gill1109 wrote:Regarding the whole discussion about inequalities and bounds ...
I made a little R script to draw the correlation surfaces E(a, b) and just four points on them (a) under QM and/or Joy's model, (b) under the traditional "best" LHV model.
The point being: a CHSH-syle experiment tests four points on the surface. Let's forget the word "bound" and the word "inequality". They lead to endless misunderstanding.
But please do let's realize that an experiment is always subject to experimental error, statistical error. We don't determine those four points exactly, but only approximately. If N = 100 (per point) the error will be about 0.1. Not good. If N = 10 000 (per point) the error will be about 0.01. Plenty enough.
gill1109 wrote:Ben suggests we average + E(0, 135), - E(0, 45), - E(90, 45), and - E(90, 135) and compare it to 0.6 (bigger? or smaller?). I think this is a brilliant idea.
minkwe wrote:gill1109 wrote:Ben suggests we average + E(0, 135), - E(0, 45), - E(90, 45), and - E(90, 135) and compare it to 0.6 (bigger? or smaller?). I think this is a brilliant idea.
Really?! Because it allows you to hide the fact that you are using the same debunked CHSH logic? Why is it not enough to show that for any angle pair you pick E(a,b) agrees with QM. Why-o-why are you tethered to that CHSH expression?
Heinera wrote:minkwe wrote:gill1109 wrote:Ben suggests we average + E(0, 135), - E(0, 45), - E(90, 45), and - E(90, 135) and compare it to 0.6 (bigger? or smaller?). I think this is a brilliant idea.
Really?! Because it allows you to hide the fact that you are using the same debunked CHSH logic? Why is it not enough to show that for any angle pair you pick E(a,b) agrees with QM. Why-o-why are you tethered to that CHSH expression?
And when will you understand that if for any angle pair you pick, E(a,b) agrees with QM, will imply that E(0, 135), E(0, 45), E(90, 45), and E(90, 135) must also agree with QM, since 0, 45, 90, and 135 is part of "any"?
Heinera wrote:So if the original correlations (all computed on the whole set) didn't violate the CHSH inequality (CHSH<2), and the correlations computed on four disjoint random subset would not change much, we can now conclude that the four latter correlations would still not significantly violate the CHSH inequality, since term by term, they are approximately equal to the original correlations?
minkwe wrote:gill1109 wrote:Ben suggests we average + E(0, 135), - E(0, 45), - E(90, 45), and - E(90, 135) and compare it to 0.6 (bigger? or smaller?). I think this is a brilliant idea.
Really?! Because it allows you to hide the fact that you are using the same debunked CHSH logic? Why is it not enough to show that for any angle pair you pick E(a,b) agrees with QM. Why-o-why are you tethered to that CHSH expression?
minkwe wrote:Heinera wrote:minkwe wrote:Really?! Because it allows you to hide the fact that you are using the same debunked CHSH logic? Why is it not enough to show that for any angle pair you pick E(a,b) agrees with QM. Why-o-why are you tethered to that CHSH expression?
And when will you understand that if for any angle pair you pick, E(a,b) agrees with QM, will imply that E(0, 135), E(0, 45), E(90, 45), and E(90, 135) must also agree with QM, since 0, 45, 90, and 135 is part of "any"?
Heinera,
You too should make an effort to understand the coin analogy. Your question shows that you have not understood it. If any angle pair you pick agrees with QM then of course (0, 135), (0, 45), (90, 45) and (90, 135), being angle pairs also agree with QM. Nobody denies this trivial obvious fact. Angle pairs are angle pairs. That you will think I don't understand that angle pairs are angle pairs is just silly.
minkwe wrote:What you still do not understand is that results of *all the 4 angle pairs from a single set of particles* is different from results from 4 angle pairs from 4 different sets of particles. EVEN IF those 4 sets of particles are from the same population as the single set. That you still do not understand this point is shown clearly in this question you asked in the other thread:Heinera wrote:So if the original correlations (all computed on the whole set) didn't violate the CHSH inequality (CHSH<2), and the correlations computed on four disjoint random subset would not change much, we can now conclude that the four latter correlations would still not significantly violate the CHSH inequality, since term by term, they are approximately equal to the original correlations?
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