Quantum Fluctuations of Light: A Modern Perspective on Wave/Particle Duality
Quantum Physics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We review studies of the fluctuations of light made accessible by the invention of the laser and the strong interactions realized in cavity QED experiments. Photon antibunching advocating the discrete (particles), is contrasted with amplitude squeezing which speaks of the continuous (waves). The tension between particles and waves is demonstrated by a recent experiment which combines the measurement strategies used to observe these nonclassical behaviors of light [Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 3149 (2000)].
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0104073,
title = {Quantum Fluctuations of Light: A Modern Perspective on Wave/Particle Duality},
author = {H. J. Carmichael},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0104073},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
22 pages, 12 figures, paper presnted at the symposium ``One Hundred Years of the Quantum: From Max Planck to Entanglement,'' University of Puget Sound, October 29 and 30, 2000