Observation of bosonic coalescence and fermionic anti-coalescence with indistinguishable photons

Guillaume Adenier; Joakim Bergli; Andreas P. Thörn; Arnt Inge Vistnes

doi:10.1117/12.2024090

1 October 2013 Observation of bosonic coalescence and fermionic anti-coalescence with indistinguishable photons

Guillaume Adenier, Joakim Bergli, Andreas P. Thörn, Arnt Inge Vistnes

Proceedings Volume 8832, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? V; 88321K (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024090
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2013, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

The symmetrization postulate asserts that the state of particular species of particles can only be of one permutation symmetry type: symmetric for bosons and antisymmetric for fermions. We report some experimental results showing that pairs of photons indistinguishable by all degrees of freedom can exhibit not only a bosonic behavior, as expected for photons, but also a surprisingly sharp fermionic behavior under speci c conditions.

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Guillaume Adenier, Joakim Bergli, Andreas P. Thörn, and Arnt Inge Vistnes "Observation of bosonic coalescence and fermionic anti-coalescence with indistinguishable photons", Proc. SPIE 8832, The Nature of Light: What are Photons? V, 88321K (1 October 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024090

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