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Session

Morning Session 1 UN

16 Jun 2015, 10:30

1. The atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel effect: a new evidence of atomic entanglement (B)

16/06/2015, 10:30

Although it was discovered and demonstrated after the experimental evidence of Bell's inequalities violations, the Hong-Ou-Mandel effect is a conceptually simpler manifestation of entanglement and two particle interference effects, impossible to describe in classical terms. Three decades after its demonstration with photons, we have observed it with pairs of He* atoms. This opens the path...