Authors: Thomas Alexander Meyer
In 1991-1992 three papers were published by the same authors referred to as the ZWM study concerning the subject of induced coherence in photon downconversion. We present a review of these papers which all concern the same experimental arrangement. The central conclusion made by the authors is that interference is destroyed by the in principle knowability of path, that path indistinguishability is fundamental to interference effects. We review these papers with an emphasis on validating this conclusion and attempting to understand the action that is taken in the preparation of the “idler” photon and the subsequent affect that this action has on the interference visibility of the entangled “signal” photon.
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