Scheme for proving the bosonic commutation relation using single-photon interference

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 101, Issue 26, 2008, Pages

  Kim, M S ^a   Jeong, H ^b   Zavatta, A ^c   Parigi, V ^d   Bellini, M ^c,d  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^c ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COHERENT SUPERPOSITIONS; COMMUTATION RELATIONS; CREATION OPERATORS; NONCLASSICAL STATES; PHOTON INTERFERENCES; PHOTON SUBTRACTIONS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 58149485099     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.260401     Document Type: Article

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