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标题：Quantifying the momentum correlation between two light beams by detecting one
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作者：Armin Hochrainer ; Mayukh Lahiri ; Radek Lapkiewicz 等
期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：2017
卷号：114
期号：7
页码：1508-1511
DOI：10.1073/pnas.1620979114
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：We report a measurement of the transverse momentum correlation between two photons by detecting only one of them. Our method uses two identical sources in an arrangement in which the phenomenon of induced coherence without induced emission is observed. In this way, we produce an interference pattern in the superposition of one beam from each source. We quantify the transverse momentum correlation by analyzing the visibility of this pattern. Our approach might be useful for the characterization of correlated photon pair sources and may lead to an experimental measure of continuous variable entanglement, which relies on the detection of only one of two entangled particles.
关键词：quantum correlations ; single-photon interference ; complementarity principle ; photon indistinguishability ; photonic spatial modes