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arxiv: quant-ph/0010016 · v1 · submitted 2000-10-05 · 🪐 quant-ph

A Mach-Zehnder Interferometer for a Two-Photon Wave Packet

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keywords photonsexperimentinterferometermach-zehnderpackettwo-photonwavebehavior
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We propose an experiment that permits observation of the de Broglie two-photon wave packet behavior for a pair of photons, using a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. It is based on the use of pulsed lasers to generate pairs of photons via spontaneous parametric down-conversion and the post-selection of events. It differs from previous realizations by the use of a third time-correlated photon to engineer the state of the photons. The same technique can give us which-path information via an ``interaction-free'' experiment and can be used in other experiments on the foundations of quantum mechanics related to wave-particle duality and to nonlocality.

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