DocumentCode
1931789
Title
Measuring higher-order interferences with a five-path interferometer
Author
Kauten, T. ; Gschosser, Benjamin ; Mai, Patrick ; Voros, Zoltan ; Weihs, Gregor
Author_Institution
Inst. fur Experimentalphys., Univ. Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
fYear
2013
fDate
12-16 May 2013
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
1
Abstract
In this paper results of an improved version of an experiment was presented, which was proposed by Sorkin in 1994, and was experimentally implemented for the first time in 2010, with the goal of putting a bound on the potential magnitude of higher order interference terms. The work´s experiment expands this to five paths, which not only allows us to measure 3rd and 4th order interference terms but also allows testing for the possibility of quantum mechanical wavefunctions based on quaternions or octonions rather than complex numbers.
Keywords
light interference; light interferometers; quantum optics; quantum theory; five-path interferometer; higher-order interferences; octonions; quantum mechanical wavefunctions; quaternions; Interference; Mechanical variables measurement; Power measurement; Quantum mechanics; Quaternions; Testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC), 2013 Conference on and International Quantum Electronics Conference
Conference_Location
Munich
Print_ISBN
978-1-4799-0593-5
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CLEOE-IQEC.2013.6801612
Filename
6801612
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