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Comprehensive experimental test of quantum erasure

Alexei Trifonov, Gunnar Bjork, Jonas Soderholm, Tedros Tsegaye

abstract: In an interferometer, path information and interference visibility are incompatible quantities. Complete determination of the path will exclude any possibility of interference, rendering the visibility zero. However, if the composite object and probe state is pure, it is, under certain conditions, possible to trade the path information for improved (conditioned) visibility. Such a procedure is called quantum erasure. We have performed such experiments with polarization entangled photon pairs. Using a partial polarizer we could vary the degree of entanglement between object and probe. We could also vary the interferometer splitting ratio and thereby vary the a priori path predictability. We have tested quantum erasure under a number of different experimental conditions and found good agreement between experiments and theory.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0009097
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
8 pages, 8 figures, REVTeX
doi:
10.1140/epjd/e20020030
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0009097
journal_ref:
Eur. Phys. J. D 18 (2002) 251-258
created:
2000-09-22

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