Quantum correlations in successive spin measurements

In this paper we present a new approach for testing QM against the realism aspect of hidden variable theory (HVT). We consider successive measurements of non-commuting operators on a input spin s state. The key point is that, although these operators are non-commuting, they act on different states so that the joint probabilities for the outputs of successive measurements are well defined. We show that, in this scenario HVT leads to Bell type inequalities for the correlation between the outputs of successive measurements. We account for the maximum violation of these inequalities by quantum correlations by varying spin value and the number of successive measurements. Our approach can be used to obtain a measure of the deviation of QM from realism say in terms of the amount of information needed to be transferred between successive measurements in order to classically simulate the quantum correlations. PACS numbers:03.65.Ta, 03.65.Ud