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Nonlocality of a free atomic wave packet

Quantum Physics 2015-06-26 v1

Abstract

A simple model allows us to study the nonclassical behavior of slowly moving atoms interacting with a quantized field. Atom and field become entangled and their joint state can be identified as a mesoscopic "Schroedinger-cat". By introducing appropriate observables for atom and field and by analyzing correlations between them based on a Bell-type inequality we can show the corresponding nonclassical behavior.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0312020,
  title  = {Nonlocality of a free atomic wave packet},
  author = {F. Haug and M. Freyberger and K. Wodkiewicz},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0312020},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

15 pages, 3 figures. To appear in Physics Letters A

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