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arxiv: quant-ph/0110170 · v2 · pith:WFZT5ZS6new · submitted 2001-10-30 · 🪐 quant-ph

Photon number conservation and photon interference

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keywords losslessnumberopticalpassivephotonapproachaspectbeam
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The group theoretical aspect of the description of passive lossless optical four-ports (beam splitters) is revisited. It is shown through an example, that this approach can be useful in understanding interferometric schemes where a low number of photons interfere. The formalism is extended to passive lossless optical six-ports, their SU(3)-theory is outlined.

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