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Entanglement of photons

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

It is argued that the title of this paper represents a misconception. Contrary to widespread beliefs it is electromagnetic field modes that are ``systems'' and can be entangled, not photons. The amount of entanglement in a given state is shown to depend on redefinitions of the modes; we calculate the minimum and maximum over all such redefinitions for several examples.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0206135,
  title  = {Entanglement of photons},
  author = {S. J. van Enk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0206135},
  year   = {2009}
}

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