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Aspects of nonlocality in atom-photon interactions in a cavity

Quantum Physics 2009-11-06 v2

Abstract

We investigate a Bell-type inequality for probabilities of detected atoms formulated using atom-photon interactions in a cavity. We consider decoherence brought about by both atomic decay, as well as cavity photon loss, and study its quantitative action in diminishing the atom-field and the resultant atom-atom secondary correlations. We show that the effects of decoherence on nonlocality can be observed in a controlled manner in actual experiments involving the micromaser and also the microlaser.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0005123,
  title  = {Aspects of nonlocality in atom-photon interactions in a cavity},
  author = {A. S. Majumdar and N. Nayak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0005123},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

9 pages, 3 .eps figures, Revtex. Revised version with details of calculations and more results