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Higher order wave-particle duality

Quantum Physics 2015-06-12 v1

Abstract

The complementarity of single-photon's particle-like and wave-like behaviors can be described by the inequality D2+V21D^2+V^2 \leq 1, with DD being the path distinguishability and VV being the fringe visibility. In this paper, we generalize this duality relation to multi-photon case, where two new concepts, higher order distinguishability and higher order fringe visibility, are introduced to quantify the higher order particle-like and wave-like behaviors of multi-photons.

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@article{arxiv.1212.4255,
  title  = {Higher order wave-particle duality},
  author = {Jie-Hui Huang and Sabine Wölk and Shi-Yao Zhu and M. Suhail Zubairy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1212.4255},
  year   = {2015}
}

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5 pages, 1 figure

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