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Coalescence and Anti-Coalescence Interference of Two-Photon Wavepacket in a Beam Splitter

Kaige Wang

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0301060

Abstract

We study a general theory on the interference of two-photon wavepacket in a beam splitter (BS). We find that the perfect coalescence interference requires a symmetric spectrum of two-photon wavepacket which can be entangled or un-entangled. Furthermore, we introduce a two-photon wavepacket with anti-symmetric spectrum, which is related with photon entanglement and shows a perfect anti-coalescence effect. The theory present uniform and complete explanation to two-photon interference.

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