Probing quantum commutation rules by addition and subtraction of single photons to/from a light field

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5846, 2007, Pages 1890-1893

  Parigi, Valentina ^a   Zavatta, Alessandro ^b   Kim, Myungshik ^c   Bellini, Marco ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^d ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ADDITION REACTION; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DESTRUCTION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION FIELD; SPECTROSCOPY;

EID: 34848928033     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1146204     Document Type: Article

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17. We thank F. T. Arecchi, A. Montina, and E. Park for helpful comments and for a critical reading of the manuscript, and P. Poggi for the improvement of detection electronics. This work was partially supported by Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze and by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research, under the PRIN 2005 initiative. M.S.K. acknowledges financial support from the UK Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) and Quantum Information Processing Interdisciplinary Research Centre (QIPIRC).