On Interferometric Duality in Multibeam Experiments

dc.creatorBimonte, G.
dc.creatorMusto, R.
dc.date2003-01-07
dc.date2003-09-02
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dc.descriptionWe critically analyze the problem of formulating duality between fringe visibility and which-way information, in multibeam interference experiments. We show that the traditional notion of visibility is incompatible with any intuitive idea of complementarity, but for the two-beam case. We derive a number of new inequalities, not present in the two-beam case, one of them coinciding with a recently proposed multibeam generalization of the inequality found by Greenberger and YaSin. We show, by an explicit procedure of optimization in a three-beam case, that suggested generalizations of Englert's inequality, do not convey, differently from the two-beam case, the idea of complementarity, according to which an increase of visibility is at the cost of a loss in path information, and viceversa.
dc.description26 pages, 1 figure, substantial changes in the text, new material has been added in Section 3. Version to appear in J.Phys. A
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0301017
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0301017
dc.identifierJ.Phys.A36:11481-11502,2003
dc.identifierdoi:10.1088/0305-4470/36/45/009
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/184741
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Theory
dc.titleOn Interferometric Duality in Multibeam Experiments
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