(1) Departamento de Fısica, Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain, ES
Abstract:
Several examples of photon entanglement are studied in the Q representation of quantum optics. In particular, the entangled states produced in parametric downconversion are studied in
detail, and we determine the conditions for the violation of Bell's inequality. Our approach shows that photon entanglement
is related to the existence of correlations between the quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field associated to different
modes.
Received 10 August 2002 / Received in final form 7 November 2002 Published online 4 February 2003