What is entanglement?
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I conjecture that only those states of light whose Wigner function is positive are real states, and give arguments suggesting that this is not a serious restriction. Hence it follows that the Wigner formalism in quantum optics is capable of interpretation as a classical wave field with the addition of a zeropoint contribution. Thus entanglement between pairs of photons with a common origin occurs because the two light signals have amplitudes and phases, both below and above the zeropoint intensity level, which are correlated with each other.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0204020,
title = {What is entanglement?},
author = {Emilio Santos},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0204020},
year = {2007}
}
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