Duality relations in a two-path interferometer with an asymmetric beam splitter
Li Li,Nai-Le Liu,Sixia Yu +2 more
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In this paper, the waveparticle duality in a general Mach-Zehnder interferometer setup with an asymmetric beam splitter was investigated quantitatively, and the condition for joint measurability of these unsharp observables was applied to obtain a trade-off relation between the fringe visibility of the interference pattern and the which-path distinguishability.Abstract:
We investigate quantitatively the wave-particle duality in a general Mach-Zehnder interferometer setup with an asymmetric beam splitter. The asymmetric beam splitter introduces additional a priori which-path knowledge, which is different for a particle detected at one output port of the interferometer and a particle detected at the other. Accordingly, the fringe visibilities of the interference patterns emerging at the two output ports are also different. Hence, in sharp contrast with the symmetric case, here we should concentrate on one output port and distinguish two possible paths taken by the particles detected at that port among four paths. It turns out that two nonorthogonal unsharp observables are measured jointly in this setup. We apply the condition for joint measurability of these unsharp observables to obtain a trade-off relation between the fringe visibility of the interference pattern and the which-path distinguishability.read more
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