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Quantum Statistics Can Suppress Classical Interference

Ole Steuernagel

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0110066

Abstract

Classical optical interference experiments correspond to a measurement of the first-order correlation function of the electromagnetic field. The converse of this statement: experiments that measure the first order correlation functions do not distinguish between the quantum and classical theories of light, does not always hold. A counterexample is given.

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