These tools will be applied to the emblematic case of a one-photon wave packet, which behaves both as a particle and a wave. Wave-particle duality is a great quantum mystery in the words of ...

Since its development 100 years ago, quantum mechanics has revolutionized our understanding of nature, revealing a bizarre ...

The main wave packet of the single photon travels no faster than the speed of light in vacuum in any dispersive medium, and can be delayed up to 500 nanoseconds in a slow light medium.

A single high-dimensional photon, a fundamental particle involved in electromagnetic interactions, has a wave packet that contains “32 time-bins or dimensions” of information that can be ...

The team used an interferometer to split a photon wave function down two possible paths before meeting again.

At t = 0, we initiate the system such that the photon is described by a wave packet of the form Figure 2: Photon motion in an effective magnetic field.

"The problem was that if one has a photon travelling in a channel, the photon has a 'wave-packet' with a certain shape," Jacobs said. "For a quantum gate, you need the photon wave-packets to ...

This architecture succeeds because it reduces the wave packet distortions that otherwise accompany the action of optical nonlinearities. We show that high-fidelity gates can be achieved with ...

In their paper, Lewis-Swan and Kheruntsyan write that a matter-wave demonstration of the HOM effect would enable an expansion of foundational tests of quantum mechanics into previously unexplored ...

Secondly, the photon is now thought of as a particle, a wave, and an excitation—kind of like a wave—in a quantum field. A quantum field, such as the electromagnetic field, is a kind of energy and ...

The wave is, in fact, a packet of purest energy. This is the way energy is exchanged in the electromagnetic field. Quantum theory advises, however, that waves and particles are not distinct things.