Mihai A. Macovei

Since 2004, Mihai Macovei has been a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Heidelberg, Germany. He received his Ph.D. at the Institute of Applied Physics, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, and was a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation while at Freiburg University, Germany. His research interests include collective phenomena in quantum optics, quantum interference and decoherence, and quantum correlations.

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Matter Waves and Quantum Correlations

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Mihai A. Macovei, Published June 25, 2012

optics | quantum

Colliding matter waves from a Bose-Einstein condensate violate a relation called the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, proving that such interactions must be considered quantum mechanically.