Multiparticle quantum interference in Bogoliubov bosonic transformations

Abstract

We explore the multiparticle transition probabilities in Gaussian unitaries effected by a two-mode Bogoliubov bosonic transformation on the mode annihilation and creation operators. We show that the transition probabilities can be characterized by remarkably simple, yet unsuspected recurrence equations involving a linear combination of probabilities. The recurrence exhibits an interferometric suppression term - a negative probability - which generalizes the seminal Hong-Ou-Mandel effect to more than two indistinguishable photons impinging on a beam splitter of rational transmittance. Unexpectedly, interferences thus originate in this description from the cancellation of probabilities instead of amplitudes. Our framework, which builds on the generating function of the non-Gaussian matrix elements of Gaussian unitaries in Fock basis, is illustrated here for the most common passive and active linear coupling between two optical modes driven by a beam splitter or a parametric amplifier. Hence, it also allows us to predict unsuspected multiphoton interference effects in an optical amplifier of rational gain. In particular, we confirm the newly found two-photon interferometric suppression effect in an amplifier of gain 2 originating from timelike indistinguishability (arXiv:2012.15165 [quant-ph]). Overall, going beyond standard two-mode optical components, we expect our method will prove valuable for describing general quantum circuits involving Bogoliubov bosonic transformations.

v1: 5 pages for the main document, 21 pages for the supplementary information. v2: Published version. New title. Improved version with added details on the comparison with distinguishable photons and on the interferometric suppression for rational transmittance or gain. The two-photon interference effect in a gain-2 amplifier is now reported on in a separate paper : arXiv:2012.15165 [quant-ph]

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