Bell correlations between spatially separated pairs of atoms

D. K. Shin; B. M. Henson; S. S. Hodgman; T. Wasak; J. Chwedeńczuk; A. G. Truscott

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-12192-8

Nature Communications (Oct 2019)

Bell correlations between spatially separated pairs of atoms

D. K. Shin,
B. M. Henson,
S. S. Hodgman,
T. Wasak,
J. Chwedeńczuk,
A. G. Truscott

Affiliations

D. K. Shin: Research School of Physics, Australian National University
B. M. Henson: Research School of Physics, Australian National University
S. S. Hodgman: Research School of Physics, Australian National University
T. Wasak: Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
J. Chwedeńczuk: Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
A. G. Truscott: Research School of Physics, Australian National University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12192-8
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Entangled particles some distance apart can be used to show the strikingly nonlocal nature of quantum mechanics. Here the authors generate spatially separated pairs of helium atoms by colliding Bose-Einstein condensates and show that they are entangled by observing nonlocal correlations.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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