title: Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen correlations via dissociation of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate.
abstract: Recent experimental measurements of atomic intensity correlations through atom shot noise suggest that atomic quadrature phase correlations may soon be measured with a similar precision. We propose a test of local realism with mesoscopic numbers of massive particles based on such measurements. Using dissociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate of diatomic molecules into bosonic atoms, we demonstrate that strongly entangled atomic beams may be produced which possess Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlations in field quadratures in direct analogy to the position and momentum correlations originally considered by EPR.
authors.affiliation: ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics, School of Physical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia.
authors.forename: K V
authors.initials: KV
authors.lastname: Kheruntsyan
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Olsen
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Drummond