Interference of Fock states in a single measurement
Abstract
We study analytically the structure of an arbitrary-order correlation function for a pair of Fock states and prove without any approximations that, in a single measurement of particle positions, interference effects must occur as experimentally observed with Bose-Einstein condensates. We also show that the noise level present in the statistics is slightly lower than for a corresponding measurement of phase states.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- October 2007
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:quant-ph/0703273
- Bibcode:
- 2007PhRvA..76d2124D
- Keywords:
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- 03.65.-w;
- 03.75.Nt;
- Quantum mechanics;
- Other Bose-Einstein condensation phenomena;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 4 pages