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Physical Review A

Second-order statistical properties of quantum chaotic beams

C. Bendjaballah, M. Pourmir

Published May 15, 2009• 1 citation
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Abstract

We consider the situation in which the field of quantum particles such as photons (bosons) or electrons (fermions) undergoes a significant attenuation during the detection process. We characterize the second-order statistical properties of the field by the bunching for bosons and the antibunching for fermions. Bunching and antibunching effects are derived from the time intervals distributions of the random point process of detection instead of the moments of the number of particles registered in a given time interval. Fields of both beams are supposed to be in chaotic states and have second-order time correlation functions of exponential profile and of arbitrary correlation time. A test is proposed for nonclassical states: the behavior of the antibunching function is a nondecreasing function near the origin of the time axis.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.79.053826

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The analysis of the statistical properties of the point process (PP) of photon detection times can be used to determine whether or not an optical field is classical, in the sense that its statistical description does not require the methods of quantum optics. This determination is, however, more difficult than ordinarily admitted and the first aim of this paper is to illustrate this point by using some results of the PP theory. For example, it is well known that the analysis of the photodetection of classical fields exhibits the so-called bunching effect. But this property alone cannot be used to decide the nature of a given optical field. Indeed, we have presented examples of point processes for which a bunching effect appears and yet they cannot be obtained from a classical field. These examples are illustrated by computer simulations. Similarly, it is often admitted that for fields with very low light intensity the bunching or antibunching can be described by using the statistical properties of the distance between successive events of the point process, which simplifies the experimental procedure. We have shown that, while this property is valid for classical PPs, it has no reason to be true for nonclassical PPs, and we have presented some examples of this situation also illustrated by computer simulations.