Bose-Einstein photon correlations in the stochastic interferometer.
We describe a nonstationary field interferometer, a device for measuring interference among particle Feynman paths that arise from an externally driven stochastic scattering process. Bose-Einstein photon correlations are found to arise from a uniform distribution of the driving noise. A quantum visibility theory valid for any excitation noise distribution is given. The results are considered from the perspective of the probability theory and of statistical mechanics.
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