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Measurement of the single-photon tunneling time

Steinberg, A. M., Kwiat, P. G., Chiao, R. Y.·1993·Physical Review Letters
DOI 10.1103/physrevlett.71.708
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Using a two-photon interferometer, we have measured the time delay for a photon to tunnel across a barrier consisting of a 1.1-\ensuremath{\mu}m-thick 1D photonic band-gap material. The peak of the photon wave packet appears on the far side of the barrier 1.47\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.21 fs earlier than it would if it were to travel at the vacuum speed of light c. Although the apparent tunneling velocity (1.7\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.2)c is superluminal, this is not a genuine signal velocity, and Einstein causality is not violated. The measured tunneling time is consistent with the group delay (``phase time''), but not with the semiclassical time.

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Authors
Steinberg, A. M., Kwiat, P. G., & Chiao, R. Y.
Venue
Physical Review Letters
Publisher
American Physical Society (APS)
Published
1993-08-02
Volume
71
Issue
5
Pages
708-711
ISSN
0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.71.708
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journal article
Language
en
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