Entanglement and Thouless times from coincidence measurements across disordered media

被引:16
作者
Cherroret, Nicolas [1 ]
Buchleitner, Andreas [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Freiburg, Inst Phys, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 2011年 / 83卷 / 03期
关键词
WEAK-LOCALIZATION; BACKSCATTERING; RADIATION;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.83.033827
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
We showthat the entanglement of an initially frequency-entangled photon pair propagating through a disordered scattering medium can be read off in transmission from the coincidence counting rate. The very same quantity also encodes the Thouless time, which is the typical time it takes for a photon to traverse the disordered medium by diffusion.
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