Experimental violation of a Bell-like inequality with optical vortex beams
Optical beams with topological singularities have a Schmidt decomposition. Hence, they display features typically associated with bipartite quantum systems; in particular, these classical beams can exhibit entanglement. This classical entanglement can be quantified by a Bell inequality formulated in...
| Authors: | , , , , , |
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| Format: | article |
| Publication Date: | 2015 |
| Country: | España |
| Institution: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repository: | Docta Complutense |
| Language: | English |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/24324 |
| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24324 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | 535 Orbital angular-momentum Quantum entanglement Wigner function Nonlocality Coherence States Radiometry Entropy Fields Space Óptica (Física) 2209.19 Óptica Física |
| Summary: | Optical beams with topological singularities have a Schmidt decomposition. Hence, they display features typically associated with bipartite quantum systems; in particular, these classical beams can exhibit entanglement. This classical entanglement can be quantified by a Bell inequality formulated in terms of Wigner functions. We experimentally demonstrate the violation of this inequality for Laguerre-Gauss (LG) beams and confirm that the violation increases with increasing orbital angular momentum. Our experimental scheme, which is designed to give directly the parity of the Wigner function, yields negativity at the origin for LG_10 beams, whereas for LG_20 we always get a positive value. |
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