Quantum mechanical effect of path-polarization contextuality for a single photon

DOI10.1007/S10773-010-0376-4MaRDI QIDQ707827zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. K. Pan, Dipankar Home

Publication date 8 October 2010

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1005.1242

zbMATH Keywords

Mach-Zehnder setuppath-spin degrees of freedomquantum contextuality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physical optics (78A10) Contextuality in quantum theory (81P13) Quantum optics (81V80)

Abstract: Using measurements pertaining to a suitable Mach-Zehnder(MZ) type setup, a curious quantum mechanical effect of contextuality between the path and the polarization degrees of freedom of a polarized photon is demonstrated, without using any notion of realism or hidden variables - an effect that holds good for the product as well as the entangled states. This form of experimental context-dependence is manifested in a way such that at emph{either} of the two exit channels of the MZ setup used, the empirically verifiable emph{subensemble} statistical properties obtained by an arbitrary polarization measurement depend upon the choice of a commuting(comeasurable) path observable, while this effect disappears for the emph{whole ensemble} of photons emerging from the two exit channels of the MZ setup.

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