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On The Biphoton Wavelength
We report on an experiment showing that the wavelength of a biphoton is
clearly dependent on the measurement scheme and on the way it is defined. It is
shown that it can take any value, depending on the control of the
interferometer phase differences. It is possible to identify the interference
of the single and two-photon wavepackets as particular cases of the most
general interference process. The variable wavelength has no implication on the
energy of the individual photons neither on the total energy of the biphoton
Image and Coherence Transfer in the Stimulated Down-conversion Process
The intensity transverse profile of the light produced in the process of
stimulated down-conversion is derived. A quantum-mechanical treatment is used.
We show that the angular spectrum of the pump laser can be transferred to the
stimulated down-converted beam, so that images can also be transferred from the
pump to the down-converted beam. We also show that the transfer can occur from
the stimulating beam to the down-converted one. Finally, we study the process
of diffraction through an arbitrarily shaped screen. For the special case of a
double-slit, the interference pattern is explicitly obtained. The visibility
for the spontaneous emitted light is in accordance with the van Cittert -
Zernike theorem for incoherent light, while the visibility for the stimulated
emitted light is unity. The overall visibility is in accordance with previous
experimental results
Control of conditional pattern with polarization entanglement
Conditional interference patterns can be obtained with twin photons from
spontaneous parametric down-conversion and the phase of the pattern can be
controlled by the relative transverse position of the signal and idler
detectors. Using a configuration that produces entangled photons in both
polarization and transverse momentum we report on the control of the
conditional patterns by acting on the polarization degree of freedom.Comment: Submitted for publication in Optics Communication
On Logical Depth and the Running Time of Shortest Programs
The logical depth with significance of a finite binary string is the
shortest running time of a binary program for that can be compressed by at
most bits. There is another definition of logical depth. We give two
theorems about the quantitative relation between these versions: the first
theorem concerns a variation of a known fact with a new proof, the second
theorem and its proof are new. We select the above version of logical depth and
show the following. There is an infinite sequence of strings of increasing
length such that for each there is a such that the logical depth of the
th string as a function of is incomputable (it rises faster than any
computable function) but with replaced by the resuling function is
computable. Hence the maximal gap between the logical depths resulting from
incrementing appropriate 's by 1 rises faster than any computable function.
All functions mentioned are upper bounded by the Busy Beaver function. Since
for every string its logical depth is nonincreasing in , the minimal
computation time of the shortest programs for the sequence of strings as a
function of rises faster than any computable function but not so fast as
the Busy Beaver function.Comment: 12 pages LaTex (this supercedes arXiv:1301.4451
Spatial correlations in parametric down-conversion
The transverse spatial effects observed in photon pairs produced by
parametric down-conversion provide a robust and fertile testing ground for
studies of quantum mechanics, non-classical states of light, correlated imaging
and quantum information. Over the last 20 years there has been much progress in
this area, ranging from technical advances and applications such as quantum
imaging to investigations of fundamental aspects of quantum physics such as
complementarity relations, Bell's inequality violation and entanglement. The
field has grown immensely: a quick search shows that there are hundreds of
papers published in this field. The objective of this article is to review the
building blocks and major theoretical and experimental advances in the field,
along with some possible technical applications and connections to other
research areas.Comment: 116 pages, 35 figures. To appear in Physics Report
Experimental determination of multipartite entanglement with incomplete information
Multipartite entanglement is very poorly understood despite all the
theoretical and experimental advances of the last decades. Preparation,
manipulation and identification of this resource is crucial for both practical
and fundamental reasons. However, the difficulty in the practical manipulation
and the complexity of the data generated by measurements on these systems
increase rapidly with the number of parties. Therefore, we would like to
experimentally address the problem of how much information about multipartite
entanglement we can access with incomplete measurements. In particular, it was
shown that some types of pure multipartite entangled states can be witnessed
without measuring the correlations [M. Walter et al., Science 340, 1205 (2013)]
between parties, which is strongly demanding experimentally. We explore this
method using an optical setup that permits the preparation and the complete
tomographic reconstruction of many inequivalent classes of three- and
four-partite entangled states, and compare complete versus incomplete
information. We show that the method is useful in practice, even for non-pure
states or non ideal measurement conditions.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures. Close to published versio
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