Anti-hong-ou-mandel effect with entangled photons and lossy beamsplitter
Anti-hong-ou-mandel effect with entangled photons and lossy beamsplitter
Classical Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect – two-particle interference on a lossless beamsplitter, reveals the fundamental difference between bosonic and fermionic particles. As a result of such interference, pairs of bosons coalesce while pairs of fermions anti-coalesce. Here we report an observation of the anti-HOM effect where bosons anti-coalesce and fermions show coalescent-like behavior when interfere on a lossy beamsplitter. By exploiting two-photon entangled states, we provide an experimental demonstration of the anti-HOM effect for both bosonic and fermionic spatial wavefunctions of the photons. This fundamental phenomenon may enrich quantum information and metrology protocols where states of entangled photons are dynamically converted.
Vetlugin, Anton N
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Guo, Ruixiang
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Soci, Cesare
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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1 August 2021
Vetlugin, Anton N
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Guo, Ruixiang
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Soci, Cesare
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Zheludev, Nikolai
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Vetlugin, Anton N, Guo, Ruixiang, Soci, Cesare and Zheludev, Nikolai
(2021)
Anti-hong-ou-mandel effect with entangled photons and lossy beamsplitter.
SPIE Optics & Photonics 2021, San Diego, Virtual, United States.
01 - 05 Aug 2021.
(doi:10.1117/12.2598902).
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Classical Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect – two-particle interference on a lossless beamsplitter, reveals the fundamental difference between bosonic and fermionic particles. As a result of such interference, pairs of bosons coalesce while pairs of fermions anti-coalesce. Here we report an observation of the anti-HOM effect where bosons anti-coalesce and fermions show coalescent-like behavior when interfere on a lossy beamsplitter. By exploiting two-photon entangled states, we provide an experimental demonstration of the anti-HOM effect for both bosonic and fermionic spatial wavefunctions of the photons. This fundamental phenomenon may enrich quantum information and metrology protocols where states of entangled photons are dynamically converted.
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Published date: 1 August 2021
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SPIE Optics & Photonics 2021, San Diego, Virtual, United States, 2021-08-01 - 2021-08-05
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/450968
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Anton N Vetlugin
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Ruixiang Guo
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