Violation of Bell's Inequalities in Quantum Optics

M. D. Reid and D. F. Walls
Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 955 – Published 3 September 1984
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Abstract

An optical field produced by intracavity four-wave mixing is shown to exhibit the following nonclassical features: photon antibunching, squeezing, and violation of Cauchy-Schwarz and Bell's inequalities. These intrinsic quantum mechanical effects are shown to be associated with the nonexistence of a positive normalizable Glauber-Sudarshan P function.

  • Received 20 December 1983

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.53.955

©1984 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

M. D. Reid

  • Physics Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

D. F. Walls*

  • Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106

  • *On leave from University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

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Vol. 53, Iss. 10 — 3 September 1984

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