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- Path: sparky!uunet!well!sarfatti
- From: sarfatti@well.sf.ca.us (Jack Sarfatti)
- Subject: Photon pair Mach-Zehnder Interferometer IV
- Message-ID: <BxyF6I.76v@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:20:42 GMT
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- Preamble:Ramsay's remarks about summing over phi are clearly wrong as he
- has not conceptually distinguished between a 2-slit experiment and a Mach-
- Zehnder experiment.
-
- *Yes, if my transmitter used two slits and a screen, then Ramsay would be
- right. But his point is not relevant for the Mach-Zehnder case.
-
-
-
-
- #6 pair-correlated light (single transmitter counter |1>)
-
-
- |3> _ _
- -|-|-|-| | | |-|-|-|-|-|-\
- | | | | |e+> |
- | | | | - (phi)
- |4> | | | | _ |
- -o-o-o-|_| <- O ->|_|-o-|_|-|-|-0 |1>
-
- 1/2
-
-
-
- receiver transmitter
-
-
- Fig. 6A
-
- As before in #5:
-
- The initial "entangled" (i.e. quantum-connected) photon-pair state is:
-
- |a,b> = {|a,e>|a,+>|b,+> + |a,o>|a,->|b,->}/sqrt2
-
- local unitary action of both phi-meter in e-path and 1/2 wave plate in o
- path of photon a is "polarization disentanglement":
-
- |a,b> -> {e^iphi|a,e>|a,+>|b,+> + |a,o>|a,+>|b,->}/sqrt2
-
- = |a,+>{e^iphi|a,e>|b,+> + |a,o>|b,->}/sqrt2 = |a,b>'
-
- The recombination at counter 1 induces
-
- |a,b>' -> |a,+>|1>{e^iphi|b,+> + |b,->}/sqrt2 = |a,b>'''
-
- Ramsay and others object that no unitary transformation can make two
- orthogonal states go to a single state in the sense that an orthogonal
- basis cannot be collapsed to one vector in the basis. That is true, but
- that is not what is happening here. What we have here is the time-reverse
- of a beam splitter. For example in #1 an initial state |a> was split into
- two orthogonal states |t> and |r>. That is:
-
- |a> -> [|t> + i|r>]/sqrt2
-
- clearly the time reverse is also possible
-
- [|t> + i|r>]/sqrt2 -> |a>
-
- This is not the same as |t> -> |t> and |r> -> |t> which is what I was
- construed to have meant - partly my own fault, perhaps. But this is what I
- mean now! In the case at hand, it not that
-
- |a,e> -> |a,e> and |a,o> -> |a,e> but rather |a,b>' -> |a,b>'''
-
- note that
-
- <a,b|a,b> = '<a,b|a,b>' = '''<a,b|a,b>''' = 1
-
- so these transformations are unitary.
-
- Let us review:
-
- |a,b> is entangled both in space and spin spaces. The half-wave plate
- disentangles |a,b> in spin space to |a,b>'. The single counter arrangement,
- which may require some clever optical engineering to construct properly,
- further disentangles in space |a,b>' to |a,b>'''.
-
- Indeed,
-
- |a,b>''' = |a>|b> where
-
- |a> = |a,+>|1>
-
- |b> = {e^iphi|b,+> + |b,->}/sqrt2
-
-
- Therefore, the phase information at the transmitter has been "teleported"
- to the receiver on the quantum connection by the quantum erasure of both
- the spin and space information at the transmitter. This is a new law of
- physics buried in standard quantum mechanics.
-
- p(3) = |<3|b>|^2 = |(e^iphi cos@ + sin@)/sqrt2|^2 = [1 + sin2@ cos(phi)]/2
-
- p(4) = |<4|b>|^2 = |(-e^iphi sin@ + cos@)/sqrt2|^2 = [1 - sin2@ cos(phi)]/2
-
- p(3) + p(4) = 1
-
- The quantum connection signal is
-
- p(3) - p(4) = sin2@ cos(phi)
-
- where @ is the nonlocal parameter - the difference in orientations of the
- two crystals at the spacetime events in which each photon in the same pair
- locally interacts with its crystal. The space-time interval between these
- two events is irrelevant( which Budnik fails to understand in his wrong
- "collapse or collapse" usenet posting).
-
- Ramsay's remarks about summing over phi are clearly wrong as he has not
- conceptually distinguished between a 2-slit experiment and a Mach-Zehnder
- experiment.
-
- *Yes, if my transmitter used two slits and a screen, then Ramsay would be
- right. But his point is not relevant for the Mach-Zehnder case.
-
-
-
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-