EPR correlations and EPW distributions revisited

Abstract It is shown that Bell's proof of the violation of local realism in phase space is incorrect. Bell's experiment is based upon position measurements of free particles. A violation can be derived even for a nonnegative Wigner distribution, which in this case acts as a local classical model.

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