Illustration of quantum complementarity using single photons interfering on a grating

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作者：
Jacques, V. [1 ]
Lai, N. D. [1 ]
Dreau, A. [1 ]
Zheng, D. [1 ]
Chauvat, D. [1 ]
Treussart, F. [1 ]
Grangier, P. [2 ]
Roch, J-F [1 ]
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[1] Ecole Normale Super, Lab Photon Quant & Mol, UMR CNRS 8537, Cachan, France
[2] UMR CNRS 8501, Lab Charles Fabry, Inst Opt, Palaiseau, France
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NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS | 2008年 / 10卷
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10.1088/1367-2630/10/12/123009
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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A recent experiment performed by Afshar et al (2007 Found. Phys. 37 295-305) has been interpreted as a violation of Bohr's complementarity principle between interference visibility and which-path information (WPI) in a two-path interferometer. We have reproduced this experiment, using true single-photon pulses propagating in a two-path wavefront-splitting interferometer realized with a Fresnel's biprism, and followed by a grating with adjustable transmitting slits. The measured values of interference visibility V and WPI, characterized by the distinguishability parameter D, are found to obey the complementarity relation V-2 + D-2 <= 1. This result demonstrates that the experiment can be perfectly explained by the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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