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View SchemaStatistical-noise-enhanced multi-photon interference
| Authors | Rikizo Ikuta |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | 2601.09977vv1 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09977 |
| License | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Abstract
Photon statistics plays a governing role in multi-photon interference. While interference visibility in the standard two-photon case, known as Hong-Ou-Mandel interference, monotonically degrades with higher intensity correlation functions, we show that this monotonicity does not hold for three-photon interference in symmetric circuits. We reveal that, in the discrete Fourier transform circuit, engineered super-Poissonian photon-number fluctuations, realized using a modulated laser, maximize the visibility, surpassing the magnitude of the single-photon signature. In addition, by tuning the symmetric circuit parameters, we demonstrate that the visibility hierarchy inverts relative to the benchmark of Poissonian statistics. This trade-off implies that quantum and classical advantages are mutually exclusive resources for interference, indicating a form of statistical complementarity.
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