Photon-exchange effects on photon-pair transmission
arXiv:quant-ph/0306198 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.69.063814
Abstract
It has been proposed that photon-exchange effects in atom-photon interactions could lead to greatly enhanced optical nonlinearities. These might have widespread application (e.g. quantum information). Here we demonstrate experimentally that such exchange effects can indeed enhance the probability of real absorption of photon pairs. Using nonclassical pairs of photons with variable time separation, we observe a maximum suppression of pair transmission by at least 5% with respect to the result for uncorrelated photons.
6 pages, 4 figures
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