NONLOCAL CANCELLATION OF DISPERSION

被引:224
作者
FRANSON, JD
机构
[1] Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel
来源
PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1992年 / 45卷 / 05期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.45.3126
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O43 [光学];
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070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
Classically, two coincident light pulses propagating through two dispersive media will become broadened and their degree of coincidence will be reduced. When entangled photon pairs from parametric down-conversion are considered instead, it is found that the dispersion experienced by one photon can exactly cancel the dispersion experienced by the other in such a way that their coincidence is maintained. The dispersion cancellation is independent of the separation between the two photons and provides a further example of the nonlocal nature of the quantum theory.
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页码:3126 / 3132
页数:7
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