Zero-Transmission Law for Multiport Beam Splitters
Malte C. Tichy, Markus Tiersch, Fernando de Melo, Florian Mintert, Andreas Buchleitner · Physical Review Letters · 2010
The Hong-Ou-Mandel effect is generalized to a configuration of n bosons prepared in the n input ports of a Bell multiport beam splitter. We derive a strict suppression law for most possible output events, consistent with a generic bosonic behavior after suitable coarse graining.