Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Correlations via Dissociation of a Molecular Bose-Einstein Condensate

K. V. Kheruntsyan, M. K. Olsen, and P. D. Drummond
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 150405 – Published 7 October 2005

Abstract

Recent experimental measurements of atomic intensity correlations through atom shot noise suggest that atomic quadrature phase correlations may soon be measured with a similar precision. We propose a test of local realism with mesoscopic numbers of massive particles based on such measurements. Using dissociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of diatomic molecules into bosonic atoms, we demonstrate that strongly entangled atomic beams may be produced which possess Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlations in field quadratures in direct analogy to the position and momentum correlations originally considered by EPR.

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  • Received 5 July 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.150405

©2005 American Physical Society

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K. V. Kheruntsyan1, M. K. Olsen1,2, and P. D. Drummond1

  • 1ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
  • 2Instituto de Física da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Boa Viagem 24210-340, Niterói - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Vol. 95, Iss. 15 — 7 October 2005

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