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Basis States for Relativistic, Dynamically-Entangled Particles

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

In several recent papers on entanglement in relativistic quantum systems and relativistic Bell's inequalities, relativistic Bell-type two-particle states have been constructed in analogy to non-relativistic states. These constructions do not have the form suggested by relativistic invariance of the dynamics. Two relativistic formulations of Bell-type states are shown for massive particles, one using the standard Wigner spin basis and one using the helicity basis. The construction hinges on the use of Clebsch-Gordan coefficients of the Poincar\'e group to reduce the direct product of two unitary irreducible representations (UIRs) into a direct sum of UIRs.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0409204,
  title  = {Basis States for Relativistic, Dynamically-Entangled Particles},
  author = {N. L. Harshman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0409204},
  year   = {2007}
}

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19 pages, three tables, revtex