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Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Power Law Tails of Single-Photon States in Parametric Down-Conversion

Edward R. Pike, Sarben Sarkar

Published Dec 1, 1988• 7 citations
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Abstract

Photodetection probabilities are calculated far from a nonlinear medium or atom in parametric down-conversion. These probabilities may be heuristically interpreted as due to single-photon states with photodetection amplitudes having a power law tail of exponent 5/4 in configuration space.
DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/7/7/002

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