A S MAJUMDAR and N NAYAK

S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block JD, Sector III, Salt Lake, Calcutta 700 091, India

Abstract.

We examine a local realist bound in the case of a one-atom micromaser.  It is shown that such a bound is violated using a simplified treatment of the micromaser.  We consider the effect of dissipation in a proposed experiment with the real micromaser. It is seen that the magnitude of  violation of a Bell-type inequality depends significantly on the cavity parameters.

Keywords: Bell's inequality; micromaser; dissipation.

Pacs Nos. 03.65.Bz; 42.50.Dv; 42.52.+x