Bell Inequality Violations Without Entanglement? It's Just Postselection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13431v1
• Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2025 01:06:53 GMT
• Title: Bell Inequality Violations Without Entanglement? It's Just Postselection
• Authors: Ken Wharton, Huw Price,
• Abstract summary: Wang et al. have reported a violation of a Bell inequality without entanglement.<n>We show that their result is an artifact of postselection.<n>We explain in detail why neither version is a challenge to Local Causality or local realism.
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• Abstract: Recently Wang et al. have reported a violation of a Bell inequality without entanglement [arXiv:2507.07756]. We show that their result is an artifact of postselection. It is well known that postselection may yield Bell inequality violations, both in classical toy models and in real experiments with delayed-choice entanglement-swapping. Here we describe a classical analog of Wang et al.'s experiment, and show that it produces essentially the same results as their quantum version. We explain in detail why neither version is a challenge to Local Causality or local realism: the postselection entails a rejection of Bell's assumption of Statistical Independence.

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