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Induced Coherence, Vacuum Fields, and Complementarity in Biphoton Generation

Quantum Physics 2015-03-05 v1

Abstract

We describe spontaneous parametric down-conversion experiments in which induced coherence across two coupled interferometers results in high-visibility single-photon interference. Opening additional photon channels allows "which-path" information and reduces the visibility of the singlephoton interference, but results in nearly perfect visibility when photons are counted in coincidence. A simplified theoretical model accounts for these complementary observations and attributes them directly to the relations among the vacuum fields at the different crystals.

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@article{arxiv.1409.5696,
  title  = {Induced Coherence, Vacuum Fields, and Complementarity in Biphoton Generation},
  author = {A. Heuer and R. Menzel and P. W. Milonni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1409.5696},
  year   = {2015}
}

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4 pages, 5 figures

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