%0 Journal Article
%T Entanglement swapping between spacelike separated atoms
%A Juan Le¨®n
%A Carlos Sab¨ªn
%J Physics
%D 2008
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.052314
%X We show a mechanism that projects a pair of neutral two-level atoms from an initially uncorrelated state to a maximally entangled state while they remain spacelike separated. The atoms begin both excited in a common electromagnetic vacuum, and the radiation is collected with a partial Bell-state analyzer. If the interaction time is short enough and a certain two-photon Bell state is detected after the interaction, a high degree of entanglement, even maximal, can be generated while one atom is outside the light cone of the other, for arbitrary large interatomic distances.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.2711v2