Highly nonclassical photon statistics in parametric down-conversion

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Edo Waks,¹ Barry C. Sanders,^2,3 Eleni Diamanti,¹ and Yoshihisa Yamamoto¹
¹E. L. Ginzton Laboratories, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
²Institute for Quantum Information Science, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4
³Centre for Quantum Computer Technology, Macquarie University, New South Wales 2109, Australia

Received 12 December 2005; published 20 March 2006

Weuse photon counters to obtain the joint photon-counting statistics fromtwin-beam nondegenerate parametric down-conversion, and we demonstrate directly, and withno auxiliary assumptions, that these twin beams are nonclassical.

URL:	http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.73.033814
DOI:	10.1103/PhysRevA.73.033814
PACS:	42.50.Ar; 42.50.Dv 42.50.Ar Photon statistics and coherence theory 42.50.Dv Nonclassical states of the electromagnetic field, including entangled photon states; quantum state engineering and measurements YEAR: 2006
KEYWORDS:	photon counting, nonlinear optics

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