Re: Is photon a wave packet ?

[Brian Whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

> On Tue, 14 May 2002, Jack Uretsky wrote:
>  Note also that a single photon cannot create an interference pattern.
>  Only a coherent assembly of photons can do that. It's like the legal
>  principle that a person, acting alone, can never be guilty of a
>  conspiracy.

Jack must be using the word "cannot" in some legal sense with which
I am unfamiliar.

Here are notes from some "Can do" folks from Princeton, Brown, Cornell,
Colgate, UAlberta and Sweden:
[Google: "single photon interference"]

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Photon
Interference of a Single Photon. This Page contains
information about an experiment done with a ...
<imogen.princeton.edu/user/page/single_photon.html>

Single Photon Interference
... 7a55.20 Single Photon Interference. PURPOSE: To show
the two slit experiment with single photons ...
<www.physics.brown.edu/Studies/Demo/modern/demo/7a5520.htm>

Re: Single photon interference
... Re: Single photon interference. ... References: Re: Single photon
interference: From: nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (JJ Lodder). ...
<www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/1999-04/msg0015757.html>

Re: Single photon interference
... Re: Single photon interference. ... Follow-Ups: Re: Single photon
interference:
From: Vesselin Gueorguiev <vesselin@baton.phys.lsu.edu>. ...
<www.lns.cornell.edu/spr/1999-04/msg0015683.html>

Single Photon Interference
Single Photon Interference. Lauren Heilig. Advisor: Dr. Enrique J. Galvez.
This
project aims at studying the wave-particle duality of light. A first set of
...
<departments.colgate.edu/physics/ students/sresearch01/heilig.htm>

Five experiments
... 2. Single-photon interference. The ... 98%. Figure 2: Arrangement
to exhibit single-photon interference. ...
<departments.colgate.edu/physics/research/ Photon/five_experiments.htm>

Single Photon Interference
Single Photon Overview. -Laser (left) -Mercury Lamp (center)
-Photon Enclosure (center right) Photon Entrance. ...
<polaris.phys.ualberta.ca/users/keen/photon.html>

Delayed single-photon interference
Delayed single-photon interference. ... Stefan Kröll, Baozhu
Luo and R. Krishna Mohan. The project ...
<www-atom.fysik.lth.se/afdocs/Progrep978/b2.htm>


Brian Whatcott
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