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Correlation is often significant in electron scattering from atoms, nuclei and bulk matter. Mathematically, as well as conceptually, correlation and entanglement are defined in the same way. Both correlation and entanglement connote mixing. Both are described as a deviation from a product (uncorrelated) form. In quantum optics the term entanglement is used to describe the spatial mixing of states of a system by external electromagnetic fields. In static systems correlation arises from interparticle fields that mix wavefunctions. Correlation dynamics, intrinsic in scattering from few and many body systems, adds the dimension of time to the basic conceptual framework. Time correlation, described here, mixes the time evolution of the particles. This time entanglement, which is non-local, requires both spatial correlation and quantum time ordering.
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McGuire, J., Godunov, A. (2005). Quantum Time Entanglement of Electrons. In: Whelan, C.T., Mason, N.J. (eds) Electron Scattering. Physics of Atoms and Molecules. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-27567-3_17
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