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Entangling ability of a beam splitter in the presence of temporal which-path information

Quantum Physics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

We calculate the amount of polarization-entanglement induced by two-photon interference at a lossless beam splitter. Entanglement and its witness are quantified respectively by concurrence and the Bell-CHSH parameter. In the presence of a Mandel dip, the interplay of two kinds of which-path information -- temporal and polarization -- gives rise to the existence of entangled polarization-states that cannot violate the Bell-CHSH inequality.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0503204,
  title  = {Entangling ability of a beam splitter in the presence of temporal which-path information},
  author = {J. L. van Velsen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0503204},
  year   = {2009}
}

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8 pages including 2 figures