Entangled cadmium atoms: from production to test of Bell inequalities

We present recent progress in the implementation of experimental realization of a loophole-free test of Bell inequalities for entangled 111Cd atoms. The experimental approach is a modified version of proposal of Fry and co-workers [1] for the realization of Bohm’s 1/2-spin particle version of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (E-P-R) experiment and is based on production of entangled atoms by photodissociation of the 111Cd2 isotopologue in a supersonic expansion beam using spectroscopically selective stimulated Raman process.