On single-photon and classical interference
Quantum Physics
2022-10-26 v1 Optics
Abstract
It has often been remarked that single-photon interference experiments, however complicated, seem to behave very much in the same way as those performed in the classical regime, using the field generated by a laser. This observation has the status of being `well-known to those who know it', but perhaps mysterious to others. We discuss the reasons underlying the similarity and also some of the limitations of this simple idea.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2207.14632,
title = {On single-photon and classical interference},
author = {Stephen M. Barnett},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.14632},
year = {2022}
}