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View SchemaObservation of Four-Photon de Broglie Wavelength by State Projection Measurement
| Authors | F. W. Sun, B. H. Liu, Y. F. Huang, Z. Y. Ou, G. C. Guo |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0512212 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0512212 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.033812 |
Abstract
A measurement process is constructed to project an arbitrary two-mode $N$-photon state to a maximally entangled $N$-photon state (the {\it NOON}-state). The result of this projection measurement shows a typical interference fringe with an $N$-photon de Broglie wavelength. For an experimental demonstration, this measurement process is applied to a four-photon superposition state from two perpendicularly oriented type-I parametric down-conversion processes. Generalization to arbitrary $N$-photon states projection measurement can be easily made and may have wide applications in quantum information. As an example, we formulate it for precision phase measurement.
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"doi": "10.1103/PhysRevA.74.033812",
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