Engineering of triply entangled states in a single-neutron system
Yuji Hasegawa, Rudolf Loidl, G. Badurek +3 more
Entanglement between degrees of freedom, namely between the spin, path, and (total) energy degrees of freedom, in a single-neutron system is exploited. We implemented a triply entangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ)--like state and coherently manipulated relative phases of two-level quantum subsystems. An equality derived by Mermin was applied to analyze the generated GHZ-like state: We determined the four expectation values and finally obtained $M=2.558\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.004\ensuremath{\leqslant}\ensuremath{\llap{\not\;}}2$. This demonstrates a violation of Mermin-like inequality for triply entangled GHZ-like state in a single-particle system, which, in turn, clearly contradicts the noncontextual assumption and confirms quantum contextuality.
arXiv:0908.0623•Physical Review A•Mar 25, 2010•37 citations