Quantum and classical correlations of intense beams of light via joint photodetection
arXiv:quant-ph/0508047 · doi:10.1088/1464-4266/7/12/031
Abstract
We address joint photodetection as a method to discriminate between the classical correlations of a thermal beam divided by a beam splitter and the quantum entanglement of a twin-beam obtained by parametric downconversion. We show that for intense beams of light the detection of the difference photocurrent may be used, in principle, in order to reveal entanglement, while the simple measurement of the correlation coefficient is not sufficient. We have experimentally measured the correlation coefficient and the variance of the difference photocurrent on several classical and quantum states. Results are in good agreement with theoretical predictions taking into account the extra noise in the generated fields that is due to the pump-laser fluctuations.
20 Pages, 16 Low Resolution Figs. Full Res version at http://qinf.fisica.unimi.it/~paris/pubs.html To appear on J. Opt. B
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