August 2009

Journal

Entanglement and Bell’s inequality violation above room temperature in metal carboxylates.

By:
Souza, A; Soares-Pinto, D; Sarthour, R; Oliveira, I; Reis, Mario; Brandao, Paula; Moreira dos Santos, Antonio F
Journal Name:
Physical Review B
Page Number:
54408-54408
Volume:
79
Issue Number:
5
Publication Date:
August 26, 2009
View DOI Listing:
https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.79.054408

Abstract

In the present work we show that a particular family of materials, the metal carboxylates, may have entangled states up to very high temperatures. From magnetic-susceptibility measurements, we have estimated the critical temperature below which entanglement exists in the copper carboxylate {Cu-2(O2CH)(4)}{Cu(O2CH)(2)(2-methylpyridine)(2)}, and we have found this to be above room temperature (T-e similar to 630 K). Furthermore, the results show that the system remains maximally entangled until close to similar to 100 K and the Bell's inequality is violated up to nearly room temperature (similar to 290 K).