Abstract

Recently a quite stimulating paper (Heaney et al. arXiv:0911.0770v2 [quant-ph], 2010) dealing with the possibility of exploiting the nonlocal aspects of a superposition of states of a single photon appeared. We regard as greatly relevant the results which have been obtained. However we think that the presentation of the matter and the way to derive the conclusion are not fully satisfactory and do not put the necessary emphasis on some subtle basic aspects like locality and realism. In view of its interest we consider it useful to reconsider the line of reasoning of Heaney et al. (in arXiv:0911.0770v2 [quant-ph], 2010) and to derive once more its results by following a procedure which seems to us more lucid and which makes fully clear the role of the various conceptual aspects of the treatment. We hope that our analysis will contribute to clarify and to deepen the interesting results of Heaney et al. (in arXiv:0911.0770v2 [quant-ph], 2010)