Photon correlations in both time and frequency
Quantum Physics
2018-02-14 v1 Quantum Gases
Popular Physics
Abstract
While quantum mechanics precludes the perfect knowledge of so-called "conjugate" variables, such as time and frequency, we discuss the importance of compromising to retain a fair knowledge of their combined values. In the case of light, we show how time and frequency photon correlations allow us to identify a new type of photon emission, which can be used to design a new type of quantum source where we can choose the distribution in time and energy of the emitted photons.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1802.04540,
title = {Photon correlations in both time and frequency},
author = {Elena del Valle and Juan Camilo López Carreño and Fabrice P. Laussy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.04540},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
This is a popular science paper submitted to the project "Quantum Leaps" (https://quantum-journal.org/leaps/), whose aim is to explain quantum research to teenagers