Affiliation:
1. Departamento de Física Aplicada III, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería, Universidad de Sevilla, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
2. Thermal Engineering & Instrumentation Division (IDeTIC), Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
Abstract
In this paper, the nexus between the Bell-state measurement and extracting phase information from the zeropoint field is investigated. For this purpose, the Wigner representation in the Heisenberg picture is applied in a Bell-type experiment in which the polarisation-entangled photon pairs generated in a type-II parametric down-conversion do not overlap. The signal intensities at the detectors are calculated in a four-mode approximation, being expressed as functions of the modules and phases of the four zeropoint amplitudes entering the crystal. A general criterion for identifying the correlated detectors is proposed based on the equality of the signal intensities, and without involving the calculation of the joint detection probabilities. In addition, from the analyses in the rectilinear and diagonal basis, it is shown that the distinguishability of the polarisation Bell states, which is in direct correspondence with the joint detection events in each experiment, can be related to the knowledge of the phases of the vacuum field entering the entanglement source, and giving rise to correlated detections. To this purpose, it is conjectured that a detection event is associated with a maximum value of the signal intensity averaged in the modules of the zeropoint amplitudes, as a function of the vacuum phases.
Funder
the Division of Thermal Engineering & Instrumentation (IDeTIC). Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Subject
General Physics and Astronomy
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