Violating Bell's inequalities in vacuum

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Reznik, Benni ^a   Retzker, Alex ^a   Silman, Jonathan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BELL'S INEQUALITIES; LOCAL HIDDEN-VARIABLE MODELS; RELATIVISTIC FREE SCALAR FIELDS;

ATOMIC PHYSICS; CORRELATION METHODS; GROUND STATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR PHYSICS; RELATIVITY; VACUUM;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 26944440507     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.71.042104     Document Type: Article

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