Bloch oscillations of Path-Entangled Photons

Yaron Bromberg; Yoav Lahini; Yaron Silberberg

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.263604

Bloch oscillations of Path-Entangled Photons

Quantum Physics 2011-05-19 v2 Other Condensed Matter

Authors: Yaron Bromberg , Yoav Lahini , Yaron Silberberg

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Abstract

We show that when photons in N-particle path entangled |N,0> + |0,N> state undergo Bloch oscillations, they exhibit a periodic transition between spatially bunched and antibunched states. The transition occurs even when the photons are well separated in space. We study the scaling of the bunching-antibunching period, and show it is proportional to 1/N.

Keywords

Bloch oscillations path-entangled photons bunching-antibunching transition N00N state quantum interference

Cite

@article{arxiv.1009.0415,
  title  = {Bloch oscillations of Path-Entangled Photons},
  author = {Yaron Bromberg and Yoav Lahini and Yaron Silberberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.0415},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

An error in figure 1b of the original manuscript was corrected, and the period $\lambda_B$ was redefined

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