Applying Bell's Theorem to Non-Photonic Entanglement

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Bell's theorem and the EPR phenomenon are applicable to any form of entangled particles, not just photons, including particles with rest mass like electrons and muons. The fundamental principles and issues associated with entanglement remain unchanged regardless of the type of particles involved. While using massive particles may eliminate some paradoxical elements, the core implications of Bell's theorem still hold true. This means that the experimental designs and results can be extended beyond photonic entanglement. The discussion emphasizes the universality of Bell's theorem across different types of entangled particles.
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This may seem like a silly question, but does Bell's theorem and the experimental design giving rise to the EPR phenomenon apply only to photons? Or could one, in principle, demonstrate this with entanglement of things with a rest mass, so moving at less than the speed of light? (I realize of course that this would remove the 'paradoxical' flavor since the detectors could communicate, but I am less interested in this aspect of the EPR.)
 
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twoslit said:
This may seem like a silly question, but does Bell's theorem and the experimental design giving rise to the EPR phenomenon apply only to photons?

It applies to anything entangled in that way - electrons, muons - anything.

It still retains exactly the same issues.

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Time reversal invariant Hamiltonians must satisfy ##[H,\Theta]=0## where ##\Theta## is time reversal operator. However, in some texts (for example see Many-body Quantum Theory in Condensed Matter Physics an introduction, HENRIK BRUUS and KARSTEN FLENSBERG, Corrected version: 14 January 2016, section 7.1.4) the time reversal invariant condition is introduced as ##H=H^*##. How these two conditions are identical?

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