EPRB Gedankenexperiment and Entanglement with Classical Light Waves

Abstract

Abstract In this article we show that results similar to those of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm (EPRB) Gedankenexperiment and entanglement of photons can be obtained using weak classical light waves if we take into account the discrete (atomic) structure of the detectors and a specific nature of the light-atom interaction. We show that the CHSH (Clauser, Horne, Shimony, and Holt) criterion in the EPRB Gedankenexperiment with classical light waves can exceed not only the maximum value S HV =2 that is predicted by the local hidden-variable theories but also the maximum value S Q M = 2 2 \({S_{QM}} = 2\sqrt 2 \) predicted by quantum mechanics.