Violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality with matter waves
arXiv:1204.0058 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.260401
Abstract
The Cauchy-Schwarz (CS) inequality -- one of the most widely used and important inequalities in mathematics -- can be formulated as an upper bound to the strength of correlations between classically fluctuating quantities. Quantum mechanical correlations can, however, exceed classical bounds.Here we realize four-wave mixing of atomic matter waves using colliding Bose-Einstein condensates, and demonstrate the violation of a multimode CS inequality for atom number correlations in opposite zones of the collision halo. The correlated atoms have large spatial separations and therefore open new opportunities for extending fundamental quantum-nonlocality tests to ensembles of massive particles.
Final published version (with minor changes). 5 pages, 3 figures, plus Supplementary Material
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