Entanglement and statistics in Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry

Vittorio Giovannetti

doi:10.1134/S1054660X06100033

Entanglement and statistics in Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics High Energy Physics - Theory

Authors: Vittorio Giovannetti

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Abstract

Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry allows one to detect the presence of entanglement in two-photon input states. The same result holds for two-particles input states which obey to Fermionic statistics. In the latter case however anti-bouncing introduces qualitative differences in the interferometer response. This effect is analyzed in a Gedankenexperiment where the particles entering the interferometer are assumed to belong to a one-parameter family of quons which continuously interpolate between the Bosonic and Fermionic statistics.

Keywords

hong-ou-mandel interference interferometry quantum optics

Cite

@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0605223,
  title  = {Entanglement and statistics in Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometry},
  author = {Vittorio Giovannetti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0605223},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

7 pages, 3 figures; minor editorial changes and new references added

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