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Transition from Classical, “Maxwell-Boltzmann” to Quantum, “Bose-Einstein” Partition Statistics by Stochastic Splitting of Degenerate Light

F. De Martini, S. Di Fonzo, Riccardo Tommasini

Published Jan 1, 1990• 0 citations
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10.1007/978-1-4613-0847-8_40

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Transition from Maxwell-Boltzmann to Bose-Einstein partition statistics by stochastic splitting of degenerate light

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The first experimental verification of the Tersoff-Bayer interstatistics transition theory has been reported.1-3 A novel difference photon-counting method of detection, which reveals the field's particle fluctuations, is used to gain information on the beam splitting process of a highly Bose degenerate chaotic (and coherent) photon beam emitted from an ultrastable He-Ne laser. The splitting device consists of an electrooptic Pockels cell which acts as a stationary beam splitter or a chaotic beam splitter depending on the output properties of a driving noise generator. We found that the quantum Bose statistics in a splitting (i.e., scattering) process corresponds to a fully stochastic splitting process. This conclusion has been experimentally verified for two-way splitting and for general multichannel scattering induced by microscopic particles.

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On the Statistical Properties of Photons

Michele Cini

The interpretation in terms of a transition from Maxwell-Boltzmann to Bose-Einstein statistics of the effect in quantum optics of degenerate light discovered by De Martini and Di Fonzo is discussed. It is shown that the results of the experiment can be explained by using only the quantum-mechanical rule that the states of an assembly of bosons should be completely symmetrical, without mentioning in any way their statistical properties. This means that photons are indeed identical particles.

Europhysics Letters (EPL)•May 1, 1990•1 citation
The results of an experiment show that the quantum-particles optical photons obey either Maxwell-Boltzmann or intermediate, or Bose-Einstein statistics depending on the degree of randomness of the scattering cross-section. This suggests a consistent model for the (most mysterious) interparticle quantum-correlation process. To accomplish that, we have adopted a novel quantum-optics method that, being sensitive to the field particle fluctuations, reveals the "quantum signature" of any Bose field. The intertatistics transition process is investigated both theoretically and experimentally.
The first experimental verification of the Tersoff-Bayer interstatistics transition theory has been reported.1-3 A novel difference photon-counting method of detection, which reveals the field's particle fluctuations, is used to gain information on the beam splitting process of a highly Bose degenerate chaotic (and coherent) photon beam emitted from an ultrastable He-Ne laser. The splitting device consists of an electrooptic Pockels cell which acts as a stationary beam splitter or a chaotic beam splitter depending on the output properties of a driving noise generator. We found that the quantum Bose statistics in a splitting (i.e., scattering) process corresponds to a fully stochastic splitting process. This conclusion has been experimentally verified for two-way splitting and for general multichannel scattering induced by microscopic particles.