how do a photon reflecting in a mirror stay coherent and not entangle ?

Subject: how do a photon reflecting in a mirror stay coherent and not entangle ?

Date: Sat Jan 4 13:02:22 2003
Posted by boris
Grade level: grad (science) School: unr
City: reno State/Province: nevada Country: usa
Area of science: Physics
ID: 1041703342.Ph

Message:


How do a photon reflecting in a mirror stay coherent and not entangle with the 
electrons of the mirror? Let us take a perfect mirror, a piece of metal in 
which electrons are free to move without frictions. If a photon reflect it 
should interact localy with those electrons. So how do we get coherent light 
after reflection?

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