Correlations in single-photon experiments

✍ Scribed by S. Varró

• Book ID: 105357648
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 257 KB
• Volume: 56
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-8208
• DOI: 10.1002/prop.200710396

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Correlations of detection events in two photodetectors placed at the opposite sides of a beam splitter are studied in the frame of classical probability theory. It is assumed that there is always only one photon present in the measuring apparatus during one elementary experiment (one measurement act). Due to the conservation of energy, there is always a strict anticorrelation in one elementary experiment, because the photon cannot excite both of the detectors at the same time. It is explicitely shown in several examples that the “bunching” and “anti‐bunching” of the counts in serieses of elementary single‐photon experiments is governed by the statistical properties of grouping the sequences of the elementary measurements.