Observation of bosonic coalescence and fermionic anti-coalescence with indistinguishable photons
arXiv:1309.1084 · doi:10.1117/12.2024090
Abstract
The symmetrization postulate asserts that the state of particular species of particles can only be of one permutation symmetry type: symmetric for bosons and antisymmetric for fermions. We report some experimental results showing that pairs of photons indistinguishable by all degrees of freedom can exhibit not only a bosonic behavior, as expected for photons, but also a surprisingly sharp fermionic behavior under specific conditions.
arXiv comment11 pages, 6 figures