QUANTUM INTERFERENCE AND DIFFRACTION IN THE PHASE-SPACE

Authors
DANTAS CMA BASEIA B
Citation
Cma. Dantas et B. Baseia, QUANTUM INTERFERENCE AND DIFFRACTION IN THE PHASE-SPACE, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics, 111(10), 1996, pp. 1253-1258
Citations number
23
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
11241888
Volume
111
Issue
10
Year of publication
1996
Pages
1253 - 1258
Database
ISI
SICI code
1124-1888(1996)111:10<1253:QIADIT>2.0.ZU;2-P
Abstract
It is shown that a coherent superposition of N squeezed states leads t o a photon number distribution P-n that is analogous to the classical result of interference and diffraction. The oscillations in P, coincid e with those obtained in the classical N-slits diffraction with a form -factor given by \[n/psi]\(2){sin(2n phi(n))/sin(2 phi(n)}(2). Illustr ative examples of particular superpositions are considered.