Experimental observation of counter-intuitive features of photonic bunching
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| author | Rodari, Giovanni Fernandes, Carlos Caruccio, Eugenio Suprano, Alessia Hoch, Francesco Giordani, Taira Carvacho, Gonzalo Albiero, Riccardo Di Giano, Niki Corrielli, Giacomo Ceccarelli, Francesco Osellame, Roberto Brod, Daniel J. Novo, Leonardo Spagnolo, Nicolò Galvão, Ernesto F. Sciarrino, Fabio |
| author_facet | Rodari, Giovanni Fernandes, Carlos Caruccio, Eugenio Suprano, Alessia Hoch, Francesco Giordani, Taira Carvacho, Gonzalo Albiero, Riccardo Di Giano, Niki Corrielli, Giacomo Ceccarelli, Francesco Osellame, Roberto Brod, Daniel J. Novo, Leonardo Spagnolo, Nicolò Galvão, Ernesto F. Sciarrino, Fabio |
| contents | Bosonic bunching is a term used to describe the well-known tendency of bosons to bunch together, and which differentiates their behaviour from that of fermions or classical particles. However, in some situations perfectly indistinguishable bosons may counter-intuitively bunch less than classical, distinguishable particles. Here we report two such counter-intuitive multiphoton bunching effects observed with three photons in a three-mode balanced photonic Fourier interferometer. In this setting, we show indistinguishable photons actually minimize the probability of bunching. We also show that any non-trivial value of the three-photon collective photonic phase leads to a decreased probability of all photons ending up in the same mode, even as we increase pairwise indistinguishability. Our experiments feature engineering of partial indistinguishability scenarios using both the time and the polarization photonic degrees of freedom, and a polarization-transparent 8-mode tunable interferometer with a quantum-dot source of single photons. Besides the foundational understanding, the observation of these counter-intuitive phenomena open news perspective in devising more efficient ways of routing photons for advantage in metrology and quantum computation. |
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| spellingShingle | Experimental observation of counter-intuitive features of photonic bunching Rodari, Giovanni Fernandes, Carlos Caruccio, Eugenio Suprano, Alessia Hoch, Francesco Giordani, Taira Carvacho, Gonzalo Albiero, Riccardo Di Giano, Niki Corrielli, Giacomo Ceccarelli, Francesco Osellame, Roberto Brod, Daniel J. Novo, Leonardo Spagnolo, Nicolò Galvão, Ernesto F. Sciarrino, Fabio Quantum Physics Bosonic bunching is a term used to describe the well-known tendency of bosons to bunch together, and which differentiates their behaviour from that of fermions or classical particles. However, in some situations perfectly indistinguishable bosons may counter-intuitively bunch less than classical, distinguishable particles. Here we report two such counter-intuitive multiphoton bunching effects observed with three photons in a three-mode balanced photonic Fourier interferometer. In this setting, we show indistinguishable photons actually minimize the probability of bunching. We also show that any non-trivial value of the three-photon collective photonic phase leads to a decreased probability of all photons ending up in the same mode, even as we increase pairwise indistinguishability. Our experiments feature engineering of partial indistinguishability scenarios using both the time and the polarization photonic degrees of freedom, and a polarization-transparent 8-mode tunable interferometer with a quantum-dot source of single photons. Besides the foundational understanding, the observation of these counter-intuitive phenomena open news perspective in devising more efficient ways of routing photons for advantage in metrology and quantum computation. |
| title | Experimental observation of counter-intuitive features of photonic bunching |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15883 |