Continuous Variable Entanglement using Cold Atoms

We present an experimental demonstration of both quadrature and polarization entanglement generated via the interaction between a coherent linearly polarized field and cold atoms in a high finesse optical cavity. The nonlinear atom-field interaction produces two squeezed modes with orthogonal polarizations which are used to generate a pair of nonseparable beams, the entanglement of which is demonstrated by checking the inseparability criterion for continuous variables recently derived by Duan et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 2722 (2000)] and calculating the entanglement of formation Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 107901 (2003)].