Bell test for the free motion of material particles
Abstract
We present a scheme to establish non-classical correlations in the motion of two macroscopically separated massive particles without resorting to entanglement in their internal degrees of freedom. It is based on the dissociation of a diatomic molecule with two temporally separated Feshbach pulses generating a motional state of two counter-propagating atoms that is capable of violating a Bell inequality by means of correlated single particle interferometry. We evaluate the influence of dispersion on the Bell correlation, showing it to be important but manageable in a proposed experimental setup. The latter employs a molecular BEC of fermionic Lithium atoms, uses laser-guided atom interferometry, and seems to be within the reach of present-day technology.
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@article{arxiv.0807.1448,
title = {Bell test for the free motion of material particles},
author = {Clemens Gneiting and Klaus Hornberger},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.1448},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure; corresponds to published version