title: Violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in the macroscopic regime.
abstract: We have observed a violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality in the macroscopic regime by more than 8 standard deviations. The violation has been obtained while filtering out only the low-frequency noise of the quantum-correlated beams that results from the technical noise of the laser used to generate them. We use bright intensity-difference squeezed beams produced by four-wave mixing as the source of the correlated fields. We also demonstrate that squeezing does not necessarily imply a violation of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality.
authors.affiliation: Joint Quantum Institute, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and University of Maryland, Gaithersburg, MD 20899, USA.
authors.forename: A M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Marino
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Boyer
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Lett