Higher-order mutual coherence of optical and matter waves

Details Higher-order mutual coherence of optical and matter waves Higher-order mutual coherence of optical and matter waves

1999-12-07

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9912028v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

11 pages, 2 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.62.023605

We use an operational approach to discuss ways to measure the higher-order cross-correlations between optical and matter-wave fields. We pay particular attention to the fact that atomic fields actually consist of composite particles that can easily be separated into their basic constituents by a detection process such as photoionization. In the case of bosonic fields, that we specifically consider here, this leads to the appearance in the detection signal of exchange contributions due to both the composite bosonic field and its individual fermionic constituents. We also show how time-gated counting schemes allow to isolate specific contributions to the signal, in particular involving different orderings of the Schr\"odinger and Maxwell fields.

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