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Spatial Separation of Molecular Conformers and Clusters
Published on: January 9, 2014
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations via dissociation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate
K V Kheruntsyan1, M K Olsen, P D Drummond
1ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.
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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