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An interferometric complementarity experiment in a bulk Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ensemble

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v3

Abstract

We have experimentally demonstrated the interferometric complementarity, which relates the distinguishability DD quantifying the amount of which-way (WW) information to the fringe visibility VV characterizing the wave feature of a quantum entity, in a bulk ensemble by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) techniques. We primarily concern on the intermediate cases: partial fringe visibility and incomplete WW information. We propose a quantitative measure of DD by an alternative geometric strategy and investigate the relation between DD and entanglement. By measuring DD and VV independently, it turns out that the duality relation D2+V2=1D^{2}+V^{2}=1 holds for pure quantum states of the markers.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0201146,
  title  = {An interferometric complementarity experiment in a bulk Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ensemble},
  author = {Xinhua Peng and Xiwen Zhu and Ximing Fang and Mang Feng and Maili Liu and Kelin Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0201146},
  year   = {2009}
}

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13 page, 5 PS figures