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Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations via dissociation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate

Other Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v4 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Recent experimental measurements of atomic intensity correlations through atom shot noise suggest that atomic quadrature phase correlations may soon be measured with a similar precision. We propose a test of local realism with mesoscopic numbers of massive particles based on such measurements. Using dissociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of diatomic molecules into bosonic atoms, we demonstrate that strongly entangled atomic beams may be produced which possess Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlations in field quadratures, in direct analogy to the position and momentum correlations originally considered by EPR.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0407363,
  title  = {Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations via dissociation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate},
  author = {K. V. Kheruntsyan and M. K. Olsen and P. D. Drummond},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0407363},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

Final published version (corrections in Ref. [32], updated references)