Any difference between BEC correlations and entangled states

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Bose-Einstein correlations (BEC) arise from the interference of wave functions associated with identical bosons, leading to specific correlation properties. Unlike Fermi-Dirac correlations, which exhibit antibunching, BEC demonstrates bunching behavior and can present quantum coherence. The discussion clarifies that BEC correlations are not classified as entangled states but rather as separable states, despite their unique quantum characteristics. This distinction is crucial for understanding the nature of quantum correlations in particle physics.

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On Wikipedia, an article appear from which I quoted below. Here is something called Bose-Einstein correlation due to interference of wave character that I confuse with quantum entanglement.

I want to know if these BEC correlations are entangled or separable states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bose–Einstein_correlations
"The interference between two (or more) waves establishes a correlation between these waves. In particle physics, in particular, where to each particle there is associated a wave, we encounter thus interference and correlations between two (or more) particles, described mathematically by second or higher order correlation functions.[3] These correlations have quite specific properties for identical particles. We then distinguish Bose–Einstein correlations for bosons and Fermi–Dirac correlations for fermions. While in Fermi–Dirac second order correlations the particles are antibunched, in Bose–Einstein correlations (BEC)[4] they are bunched. Another distinction between Bose–Einstein and Fermi–Dirac correlation is that only BEC can present quantum coherence (cf. below)."
 
Are BEC correlations considered to be entangled states?
 

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