 |
 |
Journal articles
Violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality with matter waves
Abstract : The Cauchy-Schwarz (CS) inequality -- one of the most widely used and important inequalities in mathematics -- can be formulated as an upper bound to the strength of correlations between classically fluctuating quantities. Quantum mechanical correlations can, however, exceed classical bounds.Here we realize four-wave mixing of atomic matter waves using colliding Bose-Einstein condensates, and demonstrate the violation of a multimode CS inequality for atom number correlations in opposite zones of the collision halo. The correlated atoms have large spatial separations and therefore open new opportunities for extending fundamental quantum-nonlocality tests to ensembles of massive particles.
https://hal-iogs.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00712023
Contributor : Christoph I Westbrook Connect in order to contact the contributor
Submitted on : Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 11:38:41 AM
Last modification on : Monday, November 23, 2020 - 12:52:03 PM
Contributor : Christoph I Westbrook Connect in order to contact the contributor
Submitted on : Tuesday, June 26, 2012 - 11:38:41 AM
Last modification on : Monday, November 23, 2020 - 12:52:03 PM
Links full text
