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Aspects of nonlocality in atom-photon interactions in a cavity

A. S. Majumdar, N. Nayak

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0005123

Abstract

We investigate a Bell-type inequality for probabilities of detected atoms formulated using atom-photon interactions in a cavity. We consider decoherence brought about by both atomic decay, as well as cavity photon loss, and study its quantitative action in diminishing the atom-field and the resultant atom-atom secondary correlations. We show that the effects of decoherence on nonlocality can be observed in a controlled manner in actual experiments involving the micromaser and also the microlaser.

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