• 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