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Probing Quantum Rules By The Experimental Implementation Of Single-Photon Creation And Annihilation Operators

Alessandro Zavatta, Valentina Parigi, M. S. Kim, Marco Bellini, A. I. Lvovsky

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We have realized experimental schemes to implement the action of single photon creation and annihilation operators on single‐mode light fields. In particular, we apply alternated sequences of creation and annihilation operators to completely classical and fully incoherent thermal light states. By verifying that the resulting states depend on the order in which the two quantum operators are applied, we provide the most direct experimental verification of the non‐commutation of bosonic creation and annihilation operators.

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Key concepts: Annihilation, Creation and annihilation operators, Photon, Commutation, Quantum, Physics, Process (computing), Mode (computer interface)