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Simultaneously Sharp Wave and Particle-Like Property of Single Photon States in a Two-Prism Experiment

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We discuss a two-prism experiment proposed by Ghose, Home and Agarwal [1] for which the formalism of quantum optics predicts anticoincidences for’ single Photon States’. This implies simultaneous particle and wave-like propagation in contradiction with the complementarity principle.

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  1. S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, DB-17, Sector-1, Salt Lake, Calcutta, 700 064, India

    Partha Ghose

  2. Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Calcutta, 700 009, India

    Dipankar Home

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  1. Partha Ghose
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  1. The University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, USA

    Ramarao Inguva

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Ghose, P., Home, D. (1993). Simultaneously Sharp Wave and Particle-Like Property of Single Photon States in a Two-Prism Experiment. In: Inguva, R. (eds) Recent Developments in Quantum Optics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2936-1_5

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