Quantum interference and non-locality of independent photons from disparate sources Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We quantitatively investigate the non-classicality and non-locality of a whole new class of mixed disparate quantum and semiquantum photon sources at the quantum-classical boundary. The latter include photon-added thermal and photon-added coherent sources, experimentally investigated recently by Zavatta et al (2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 140406). The key quantity in our investigations is the visibility of the corresponding photon-photon correlation function. We present explicit results on the violations of the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality-which is a measure of non-classicality-as well as of Bell-type inequalities. 2011 IOP Publishing Ltd.

published proceedings

  • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics

author list (cited authors)

  • Wiegner, R., von Zanthier, J., & Agarwal, G. S.

citation count

  • 7

complete list of authors

  • Wiegner, R||von Zanthier, J||Agarwal, GS

publication date

  • March 2011