Interferometric signature of different spectral symmetries of biphoton states
arXiv:2112.09610 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.105.053716
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the influence of the symmetry of the biphoton wavefunction on the coincidence measurement of the generalized Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometer, where there are a temporal and frequency shift operations between the two beam-splitters. We show that the generalized MZ interferometer is the measurement of the short-time Fourier transform of the function modeling the energy conservation of a spontaneous parametric down-conversion process if the full biphoton state is symmetric, and of the symmetric characteristic distribution of the phase-matching function if the state is antisymmetric. Thus, this technique is phase-sensitive to the spectral distribution of the photon pairs. Finally, we investigate in detail the signature of a pair of anyons whose peculiar statistics can be simulated by engineering the spectrum of photon pairs.
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