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Unpublished Paper
A Mean-Field Analogue of the Hong-Ou-Mandel Experiment with Bright Solitons
Physical Review A (2014)
  • Zhi-Yuan Sun
  • Panos Kevrekidis
  • Peter Kruger
Abstract
In the present work, we theoretically propose and numerically illustrate a mean-field analog of the Hong-Ou-Mandel experiment with bright solitons. More specifically, we scatter two solitons off of each other (in our setup, the bright solitons play the role of a classical analog to the quantum photons of the original experiment), while the role of the beam splitter is played by a repulsive Gaussian barrier. In our classical scenario, distinguishability of the particles yields, as expected, a 0.5 split mass on either side. Nevertheless, for very slight deviations from the completely symmetric scenario, a near-perfect transmission can be constructed instead, very similarly to the quantum-mechanical output. We demonstrate this as a generic feature under slight variations of the relative soliton speed, or of the relative amplitude in a wide parametric regime. We also explore how variations of the properties of the “beam splitter” (i.e., the Gaussian barrier) affect this phenomenology.
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Publication Date
December, 2014
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Prepublished version downloaded from ArXiv. Published version is located at http://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.063612
Citation Information
Zhi-Yuan Sun, Panos Kevrekidis and Peter Kruger. "A Mean-Field Analogue of the Hong-Ou-Mandel Experiment with Bright Solitons" Physical Review A (2014)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/panos_kevrekidis/260/