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Observing the transition from quantum to classical energy correlations with photon pairs

Quantum Physics 2017-11-29 v1

Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate a method to control the relative amount of quantum and classical energy correlations between two photons from a pair emitted by spontaneous parametric downconversion. Decoherence in the energy basis is achieved by applying random spectral phases on the photons. As a consequence a diverging temporal second order correlation function is observed and is explained by a mixture between an energy entangled pure state and a fully classically correlated mixte state.

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@article{arxiv.1711.10247,
  title  = {Observing the transition from quantum to classical energy correlations with photon pairs},
  author = {Stefan Lerch and André Stefanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.10247},
  year   = {2017}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures