Exploring the quantum nature of the radial degree of freedom of a photon via Hong-Ou-Mandel interference
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Ebrahim Karimi,1,* Daniel Giovannini,2 Eliot Bolduc,1 Nicolas Bent,1 Filippo M. Miatto,1 Miles J. Padgett,2 and Robert W. Boyd1,3 1Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, 150 Louis Pasteur, Ottawa, Ontario, K1N 6N5 Canada 2School of Physics and Astronomy, SUPA, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, United Kingdom 3Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA (Received 27 October 2013; published 23 January 2014)
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