Creating and probing multipartite macroscopic entanglement with light

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Dec 21;99(25):250401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.250401. Epub 2007 Dec 17.

Abstract

We propose an immediately realizable scheme showing signatures of multipartite entanglement generated by radiation pressure in a cavity system with a movable mirror. We show how the entanglement involving the inaccessible massive object is unraveled by means of field-field quantum correlations and persists within a wide range of working conditions. Our proposal provides an operative way to infer the quantum behavior of a system that is only partially accessible.