Violating Bell's inequalities in vacuum

Benni Reznik*, Alex Retzker, Jonathan Silman

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Abstract

We employ an approach wherein the ground state entanglement of a relativistic free scalar field is directly probed in a controlled manner. The approach consists of having a pair of initially nonentangled detectors locally interact with the vacuum for a finite duration T, such that the two detectors remain causally disconnected, and then analyzing the resulting detector mixed state. We show that the correlations between arbitrarily far-apart regions of the vacuum cannot be reproduced by a local hidden-variable model, and that as a function of the distance L between the regions, the entanglement decreases at a slower rate than ∼exp[-(LcT)3].

Original languageEnglish
Article number042104
JournalPhysical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Volume71
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 2005

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