• DOI:10.1117/12.2024090
• Corpus ID: 44550111

Observation of bosonic coalescence and fermionic anti-coalescence with indistinguishable photons

@inproceedings{Adenier2013ObservationOB,
  title={Observation of bosonic coalescence and fermionic anti-coalescence with indistinguishable photons},
  author={G. Adenier and Joakim Bergli and Andreas P. Th{\"o}rn and Arnt I. Vistnes},
  booktitle={Optics \& Photonics - Optical Engineering + Applications},
  year={2013}
}

• G. Adenier, J. Bergli, +1 author A. Vistnes
• Published in
  Optics & Photonics - Optical…
  4 September 2013
• Physics

The symmetrization postulate asserts that the state of particular species of particles can only be of one permutation symmetry type: symmetric for bosons and antisymmetric for fermions. We report some experimental results showing that pairs of photons indistinguishable by all degrees of freedom can exhibit not only a bosonic behavior, as expected for photons, but also a surprisingly sharp fermionic behavior under speci c conditions.