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Spin and non-locality in quantum mechanics

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Spin superposition in neutron interferometry, spin measurement, and non–local Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen spin correlations can be understood in terms of well–defined individual particle trajectories with continuously variable spin vectors.

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  1. Department of Applied Physics, Portsmouth Polytechnic, Park Building, King Henry I Street, Portsmouth, PO1 2DZ, UK

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  2. Laboratoire de Physique Théorique, Institut Henri Poincaré, 11 rue P. et M. Curie, 75231, Paris, Cedex 05, France

    P. R. Holland, A. Kyprianidis & J. P. Vigier

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Dewdney, C., Holland, P., Kyprianidis, A. et al. Spin and non-locality in quantum mechanics. Nature 336, 536–544 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1038/336536a0

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