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arXiv:1403.4235 · Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Entanglement and reduction in two-photon correlations

Arthur Jabs

Published Mar 12, 2014• 2 citations
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Abstract

For a number of basic experiments on two-photon intensity correlations, it is pointed out that the results, which are usually explained in terms of the formalism of canonical field quantization, can also be explained in terms of quantum wavepackets, where reduction and entanglement are taken into account.
DOI
10.1364/josab.31.000765

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