Experimental entangled entanglement

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jul 14;97(2):020501. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.020501. Epub 2006 Jul 11.

Abstract

All previous tests of local realism have studied correlations between single-particle measurements. In the present experiment, we have performed a Bell experiment on three particles in which one of the measurements corresponds to a projection onto a maximally entangled state. We show theoretically and experimentally that correlations between these entangled measurements and single-particle measurements are too strong for any local-realistic theory and are experimentally exploited to violate a Clauser-Horne-Shimony-Holt-Bell inequality by more than 5 standard deviations. We refer to this possibility as "entangled entanglement."