The Quantum Delayed Choice Experiment Revisited

Taku Ohwada

An operationally well-defined delayed-choice quantum-eraser experiment is proposed, realizing a genuine delayed choice within presently available quantum-optical technology. A multimode quantum memory supplies a controlled and verifiable delay, ensuring that the choice operation is applied strictly after the observation event. Electronic single-photon interference detection measurements furnish a direct statistical discriminator between the causal and informational coherence hypotheses, based solely on marginal detection statistics and without any post-selection.

Peter Shadbolt

Hylke C. Donker, Hans A. De Raedt, Kristel F. L. Michielsen

Pedro R. Dieguez, H S Karthik

Abstract Quantum delayed-choice experiments are designed to probe the robustness of the complementarity principle. In this proceeding, we revisit the main ideas reported recently in Ref. [Commun. Phys. 5, 82 (2022)] concerning a setup (quantum-controlled reality experiment) that has the same final visibility as the quantum version of Wheeler’s delayed-choice arrangement. Besides the same final statistics, upon an operational criterion of physical realism, the authors claimed a different state of affairs for the wave-and-particle behavior in delayed-choice experiments. To this end, we put forward an analysis by employing the relative entropy of coherence to study how the local wave and particle coherences when the system is traveling inside the interferometer change accordingly to the final observed visibility.

Zae-young Ghim

Jian‐Shun Tang, Yulong Li, Xiao‐Ye Xu +3 more