Photons Have Been Filmed in the Act of Pairing Up (IMAGE)

University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics

Photons Have Been Filmed in the Act of Pairing Up

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Under certain conditions, two individual, indistinguishable photons will form a pair as a result of interference. This subtle quantum effect has been successfully imaged for the first time by Micha? Jachura and Rados?aw Chrapkiewicz, doctoral students at the UW Faculty of Physics (both shown here, in multiple copies and grouped into pairs on both sides of the measuring apparatus).

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Source: UW Physics, R. Chrapkiewicz

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