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Photon number conservation and photon interference

Matyas Koniorczyk, Jozsef Janszky

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0110170

Abstract

The group theoretical aspect of the description of passive lossless optical four-ports (beam splitters) is revisited. It is shown through an example, that this approach can be useful in understanding interferometric schemes where a low number of photons interfere. The formalism is extended to passive lossless optical six-ports, their SU(3)-theory is outlined.

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