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View SchemaBunching of Photons When Two Beams Pass Through a a Beam Splitter
| Authors | K. T. McDonald, L. J. Wang |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0312032 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0312032 |
Abstract
Dirac has written "Each photon then interferes only with itself. Interference between two different photons never occurs." Indeed, a practical definition is that "classical" optics consists of phenomena due to the interference of photons only with themselves. However, photons obey Bose statistics which implies a ``nonclassical'' tendency for them to ``bunch''. For a simple example of nonclassical optical behavior, we consider two pulses of photons of a single frequency that are simultaneously incident on two sides of a lossless, 50:50 beam splitter.
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