Observing photonic de Broglie waves without the NOON state

Details Observing photonic de Broglie waves without the NOON state Observing photonic de Broglie waves without the NOON state

2009-10-30

arxiv.org/abs/0910.5797v2

Physical Review A 81, 063801 (2010)

Physics

Quantum Physics

9 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

The photonic de Broglie wave, in which an ensemble of $N$ identical photons with wavelength $\lambda$ reveals $\lambda/N$ interference fringes, has been known to be a unique feature exhibited by the photon number-path entangled state or the NOON state. Here, we report the observation of the photonic de Broglie wave for a pair of photons, generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, that are not photon number-path entangled. We also show that the photonic de Broglie wave can even be observed for a pair of photons that are completely separable (i.e., no entanglement in all degrees of freedom) and distinguishable. The experimental and theoretical results suggest that the photonic de Broglie wave is, in fact, not related to the entanglement of the photons, rather it is related to the indistinguishable pathways established by the measurement scheme.

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