Observing Photonic de Broglie Waves without the NOON State
Osung Kwon, Young-Sik Ra, Yoon-Ho Kim · 2010
We report the observation of the photonic de Broglie wave for a pair of photons, generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion, that are not photon number-path entangled. The experimental and theoretical results suggest that the photonic de Broglie wave is, in fact, not related to the entanglement of the photons, rather it is related to the indistinguishable pathways established by the measurement scheme.