Anti-Hong-Ou-Mandel effect with entangled photons and lossy beamsplitter

Anton N. Vetlugin; Ruixiang Guo; Cesare Soci; Nikolay I. Zheludev

doi:10.1117/12.2598902

1 August 2021 Anti-Hong-Ou-Mandel effect with entangled photons and lossy beamsplitter

Anton N. Vetlugin, Ruixiang Guo, Cesare Soci, Nikolay I. Zheludev

Proceedings Volume 11806, Quantum Nanophotonic Materials, Devices, and Systems 2021; 1180603 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2598902
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2021, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Classical Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) effect – two-particle interference on a lossless beamsplitter, reveals the fundamental difference between bosonic and fermionic particles. As a result of such interference, pairs of bosons coalesce while pairs of fermions anti-coalesce. Here we report an observation of the anti-HOM effect where bosons anti-coalesce and fermions show coalescent-like behavior when interfere on a lossy beamsplitter. By exploiting two-photon entangled states, we provide an experimental demonstration of the anti-HOM effect for both bosonic and fermionic spatial wavefunctions of the photons. This fundamental phenomenon may enrich quantum information and metrology protocols where states of entangled photons are dynamically converted.

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Anton N. Vetlugin, Ruixiang Guo, Cesare Soci, and Nikolay I. Zheludev "Anti-Hong-Ou-Mandel effect with entangled photons and lossy beamsplitter", Proc. SPIE 11806, Quantum Nanophotonic Materials, Devices, and Systems 2021, 1180603 (1 August 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2598902

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