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Experimental demonstration of the interferometric complementarity of one- and two-particle interference in a bulk Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ensemble

Quantum Physics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

We analyze an interferometric complementarity between one- and two-particle interference in the general case: Vi2+V1221V_{i}^{2}+V_{12}^{2}\leq 1 (i=1(i=1, 2)2), and further examine the relation among one-particle interference visibility ViV_{i}, two-particle interference visibility V12V_{12} and the predication PiP_{i} of the path of a single particle. An equality Vi2+V122+Pi2=1V_{i}^{2}+V_{12}^{2}+P_{i}^{2}=1 (i=1(i=1, 2)2) is achieved for any pure two-particle source, which implies the condition of the complementarity relation to reach the upper bound and its relation to another interferometric complementarity between path information and interference visibility of a single particle. Meanwhile, the relationships of the complementarities and the entanglement EE of the composite system are also investigated. Using nuclear magnetic resonance techniques, the two-particle interferometric complementarity was experimentally tested with the ensemble-averaged spin states, including two extreme cases and an intermediate case.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0208081,
  title  = {Experimental demonstration of the interferometric complementarity of one- and two-particle interference in a bulk Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ensemble},
  author = {Xinhua Peng and Xiwen Zhu and Maili Liu and Kelin Gao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0208081},
  year   = {2007}
}

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8 pages, 4 PS figures