Tuesday, August 14, 2012

1208.2368 (Kristel Michielsen et al.)

Event-by-event simulation of nonclassical effects in two-photon
interference experiments
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Kristel Michielsen, Fengping Jin, Mutia Delina, Hans De Raedt
A corpuscular simulation model for second-order intensity interference phenomena is discussed. It is shown that both the visibility ${\cal V}=1/2$ predicted for two-photon interference experiments with two independent sources and the visibility ${\cal V}=1$ predicted for two-photon interference experiments with a parametric down-conversion source can be explained in terms of a locally causal, modular, adaptive, corpuscular, classical (non-Hamiltonian) dynamical system. Hence, there is no need to invoke quantum theory to explain the so-called nonclassical effects in the interference of signal and idler photons in parametric-down conversion. A revision of the commonly accepted criterion of the nonclassical nature of light is needed.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.2368

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