Conditional probabilities for a single photon at a beam splitter

被引：13
作者：
Jacobs, K
Knight, PL
机构：
[1] Optics Section, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, London
来源：
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1996年 / 54卷 / 05期
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D O I：
10.1103/PhysRevA.54.R3738
中图分类号：
O43 [光学];
学科分类号：
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要：
Eight-port homodyne detection may be used to perform a joint measurement on a single-mode input to a beam splitter; the x quadrature is measured at one output port, and the p quadrature is measured at the other. This is possible even when the input mode contains only one photon. We show to what extent this ''joint measurement of a single photon'' may be reconciled with the semiclassical notion that the photon may only exit from one of the beam splitter output ports.
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页码：R3738 / R3741
页数：4
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