Year: 2007
Type: article
Abstract: Correlations of detection events in two photodetectors placed at the opposite sides of a beam splitter are studied in the frame of classical probability theory. It is assumed that there is always only one photon present in the measuring apparatus during one elementary experiment (one measurement act). Due to the conservation of energy, there is always a strict anticorrelation in one elementary experiment, because the photon cannot excite both of the detectors at the same time. It is explicitely shown in several examples that the “bunching” and “anti‐bunching” of the counts in serieses of elementary single‐photon experiments is governed by the statistical properties of grouping the sequences of the elementary measurements.
Source: Fortschritte der Physik
Author: S. Varró
Institution: Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics
Language: English
Subfield: Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2097094048