(a) Optical scheme for a three-mode splitter obtained by a set of conventional beam splitters (grey cubes) and phase shifters (green plates) 12,17, where k i with i=1,2,3 represent input–output ...

Diamond exchanges Here BS stands for beam splitter and SW stands for ideal switches. In the transmission channel, the photon is accessible to Eve. (Courtesy: Salih et al./Phys. Rev. Lett.) The second ...

But if a second (output) beam splitter is added, even after the photon has passed the first beam splitter, the photon will act like a wave and seemingly take both paths. Credit: M. Telfer.

Simply put, if you apply a global phase change to one beam relative to another when incident on an ordinary beamsplitter, it will change the time of arrival of the photon.

Depending on how this second beam splitter is configured, the photons are measured as either waves or particles. However, the ...

There is a NIAC study of having particles trapped in photon beam where the interaction could be self-focusing. It could enable a 50 GW beam to propel a 1-kilogram spacecraft to Proxima (270,000 AU – ...

Quantum objects are notoriously shifty. Take the photon, for example. The quantum of light can act as a particle one moment, following a well-defined path like a tiny projectile, and a wave the ...

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