%0 Journal Article
%T Quantum nature of light measured with a single detector
%A Steudle, Gesine A.
%A Schietinger, Stefan
%A Höckel, David
%A Dorenbos, Sander N.
%A Zwiller, Valery
%A Benson, Oliver
%J arXiv
%D 2011
%C arXiv:1107.1353
%F Steudle_etal2011
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%X We realized the most fundamental quantum optical experiment to prove the non-classical character of light: Only a single quantum emitter and a single superconducting nanowire detector were used. A particular appeal of our experiment is its elegance and simplicity. Yet its results unambiguously enforce a quantum theory for light. Previous experiments relied on more complex setups, such as the Hanbury-Brown-Twiss configuration, where a beam splitter directs light to two photodetectors, giving the false impression that the beam splitter is required. Our work results in a major simplification of the widely used photon-correlation techniques with applications ranging from quantum information processing to single-molecule detection.
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