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Quantum properties of a single beam splitter

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When a single beam-splitter receives two beams of bosons described by Fock states (Bose-Einstein condensates at very low temperatures), interesting generalizations of the two-photon Hong-Ou-Mandel effect take place for larger number of particles. The distributions of particles at two detectors behind the beam splitter can be understood as resulting from the combination of two effects, the spontaneous phase appearing during quantum measurement, and the quantum angle. The latter introduces quantum "population oscillations", which can be seen as a generalized Hong-Ou-Mandel effect, although they do not always correspond to even-odd oscillations.

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hal-00473134 , version 1 (14-04-2010)

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F. Laloë, W. J. Mullin. Quantum properties of a single beam splitter. 2010. ⟨hal-00473134⟩
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