Robert James Cecil

Asymmetric-Loss Equal-Born Test: a tabletop search for record-information-dependent optical loss

Standard linear optics requires that the transmittance of an optic be independent of photon number: for a linear element the input–output relation a_out = t·a_in + r·b_in is an operator identity, so single-photon and bright-light transmission are equal as a theorem rather than as...

Asymmetric-Loss Equal-Born Test: a tabletop search for record-information-dependent optical loss

Standard linear optics requires that the transmittance of an optic be independent of photon number: for a linear element the input–output relation a_out = t·a_in + r·b_in is an operator identity, so single-photon and bright-light transmission are equal as a theorem rather than as...