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Sonoluminescence: Two-photon correlations as a test of thermality

Francesco Belgiorno, Stefano Liberati, Matt Visser, Dennis Sciama

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/9904018

Abstract

In this Letter we propose a fundamental test for probing the thermal nature of the spectrum emitted by sonoluminescence. We show that two-photon correlations can in principle discriminate between real thermal light and the quasi-thermal squeezed-state photons typical of models based on the dynamic Casimir effect. Two-photon correlations provide a powerful experimental test for various classes of sonoluminescence models.

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