{
  "id": "1305.3188",
  "version": "v2",
  "published": "2013-05-14T15:55:04.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-09-26T08:38:14.000Z",
  "title": "General rules for bosonic bunching in multimode interferometers",
  "authors": [
    "N. Spagnolo",
    "C. Vitelli",
    "L. Sansoni",
    "E. Maiorino",
    "P. Mataloni",
    "F. Sciarrino",
    "D. J. Brod",
    "E. F. Galvao",
    "A. Crespi",
    "R. Ramponi",
    "R. Osellame"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages, 4 figures, and supplementary material (4 pages, 1 figure)",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 130503 (2013)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.130503",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "physics.optics"
  ],
  "abstract": "We perform a comprehensive set of experiments that characterize bosonic bunching of up to 3 photons in interferometers of up to 16 modes. Our experiments verify two rules that govern bosonic bunching. The first rule, obtained recently in [1,2], predicts the average behavior of the bunching probability and is known as the bosonic birthday paradox. The second rule is new, and establishes a n!-factor quantum enhancement for the probability that all n bosons bunch in a single output mode, with respect to the case of distinguishable bosons. Besides its fundamental importance in phenomena such as Bose-Einstein condensation, bosonic bunching can be exploited in applications such as linear optical quantum computing and quantum-enhanced metrology.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v2",
      "updated": "2013-09-26T08:38:14.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "03.65.Ta",
      "05.30.Jp",
      "42.50.Xa"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "bosonic bunching",
      "multimode interferometers",
      "general rules",
      "bosonic birthday paradox",
      "single output mode"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review Letters",
      "year": 2013,
      "month": "Sep",
      "volume": 111,
      "number": 13,
      "pages": 130503
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2013PhRvL.111m0503S"
    }
  }
}