# What do the regions of no Bell violation represent?

We often see the statements that a violation of Bell inequality means that the system shows quantum behavior or that a Local hidden variable theoretic description is not possible. One also finds that, typically the inequality gets violated in certain regions. Does it mean that the system is admitting a classical description for such regions ?

What do these regions of no violation mean?

• Answer that and you'll get the No Bell Prize. – Hot Licks Dec 10 '17 at 22:51
• Testing has not been perfect en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopholes_in_Bell_test_experiments if perfect correlations could ever be established, the results would match quantum mechanic predictions. – Bill Alsept Dec 11 '17 at 16:46
• – glS Dec 12 '17 at 10:39

The point of Bell's inequality is to distinguish between two assumptions about reality. All we care about is whether mother nature violates the bounds derived by John Bell for $\textit{some angle}$. The fact that it does, is really a statement about $\textit{all angles}$ : namely that the underlying system is quantum mechanical despite what may happen for some experimental set ups i.e angles where the inequality is not violated. The fact that the bound is not violated for some angles does not mean that for those angles the system deviates from what quantum mechanics predicts, it just means that I can set up an experiment where I could not distinguish a realist view of the world and a quantum mechanical view of the world. That's ok, nothing mysterious is happening because ultimately there is an angle where the two views of the world differ.
To see my point, think of a different situation. Consider a qubit in superposition $$\Psi= \frac{1}{\sqrt{2}} (\psi_0 + \psi_1),$$ where $\psi_0$ is the 0 state and $\psi_1$ is the 1 state. One can think of experiments for which it would act differently from a classical bit. But there are experiments where this state $\Psi$ would act the same as a classical bit. For example, if the classical bit changed randomly between 0 and 1 state with probability $\frac{1}{2}$, then observing and re-preparing the state $\Psi$ would show exactly the same behavior. Does this mean that something strange and mysterious is happening? No, it just means that although the underlying system is quantum mechanical there are experiments where it's behavior can't be distinguished from a classical bit.