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Latin America Optics and Photonics Conference

Spatially-Resolved Multi-Photon Interference

Miguel Angel González, Ana Sofía Reyes, Juan Camilo Alarcon, Andrés Camilo Quintero, Alejandra Valencia

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a setup to measure the joint probability of detection at different positions for two distinguishable photons impinging in a beam splitter and show theoretically that it can associated to a matrix’s permanent.
DOI
10.1364/laop.2024.m3b.3

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