Observation of bosonic coalescence and fermionic anti-coalescence with indistinguishable photons
Abstract
The symmetrization postulate asserts that the state of particular species of particles can only be of one permutation symmetry type: symmetric for bosons and antisymmetric for fermions. We report some experimental results showing that pairs of photons indistinguishable by all degrees of freedom can exhibit not only a bosonic behavior, as expected for photons, but also a surprisingly sharp fermionic behavior under speci c conditions.
- Publication:
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The Nature of Light: What are Photons? V
- Pub Date:
- October 2013
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.2024090
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1309.1084
- Bibcode:
- 2013SPIE.8832E..1KA
- Keywords:
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- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 11 pages, 6 figures