Entangling ability of a beam splitter in the presence of temporal which-path information
arXiv:quant-ph/0503204 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.72.012334
Abstract
We calculate the amount of polarization-entanglement induced by two-photon interference at a lossless beam splitter. Entanglement and its witness are quantified respectively by concurrence and the Bell-CHSH parameter. In the presence of a Mandel dip, the interplay of two kinds of which-path information -- temporal and polarization -- gives rise to the existence of entangled polarization-states that cannot violate the Bell-CHSH inequality.
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