Four-Photon (In)Distinguishability Transition

Malte C. Tichy; Hyang-Tag Lim; Young-Sik Ra; Florian Mintert; Yoon-Ho Kim; Andreas Buchleitner

doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.83.062111

Four-Photon (In)Distinguishability Transition

Quantum Physics 2011-06-21 v2

Authors: Malte C. Tichy , Hyang-Tag Lim , Young-Sik Ra , Florian Mintert , Yoon-Ho Kim , Andreas Buchleitner

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Abstract

We demonstrate the conspiration of many-particle interferences of different degree to determine the transmission of four photons of tunable indistinguishability through a four-port beam splitter array. The probability of certain output events depends non-monotonically on the degree of distinguishability, due to distinct multi-particle interference contributions to the transmission signal.

Keywords

quantum optics light propagation and speed of light

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@article{arxiv.1009.4998,
  title  = {Four-Photon (In)Distinguishability Transition},
  author = {Malte C. Tichy and Hyang-Tag Lim and Young-Sik Ra and Florian Mintert and Yoon-Ho Kim and Andreas Buchleitner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.4998},
  year   = {2011}
}

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