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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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