Coherently excited nonlocal quantum features using polarization-frequency correlation between quantum erasers

Abstract

Abstract Photon indistinguishability is an essential concept to understanding “mysterious” quantum features from the viewpoint of the wave-particle duality in quantum mechanics. The physics of indistinguishability lies in the manipulation of quantum superposition between orthonormal bases of a single photon such as in a quantum eraser. Here, a pure coherence approach is applied for the nonlocal correlation based on the polarization-frequency correlation of Poisson-distributed coherent photon pairs to investigate the role of quantum measurements. For this, a gated heterodyne-detection technique is adopted for coincidence measurements between space-like separated delayed-choice quantum erasers, resulting in an inseparable basis product between them. Thus, the mysterious quantum correlation is coherently understood via a tensor-product modification for the second-order quantum superposition. Finally, the Bell inequality violation is numerically confirmed for the derived coherence solutions of the nonlocal correlation.