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arXiv:0802.3183 · Physical Review Letters

Violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz Inequality in the Macroscopic Regime

Alberto M. Marino, Vincent Boyer, Paul D. Lett

Published Jun 10, 2008• 47 citations
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Abstract

We have observed a violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in the macroscopic regime by more than 8 standard deviations. The violation has been obtained while filtering out only the low-frequency noise of the quantum-correlated beams that results from the technical noise of the laser used to generate them. We use bright intensity-difference squeezed beams produced by four-wave mixing as the source of the correlated fields. We also demonstrate that squeezing does not necessarily imply a violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.100.233601

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