New Search For Bose-Einstein Statistics Violation For Photons

这项研究的重点是一个新的，灵敏的搜索可能违反玻色-爱因斯坦统计的光子，它使用激光光谱学的方法。该方法基于双光子跃迁的选择规则，该规则遵循光子是玻色子的假设：对于总角动量为0和1的简并光子（即具有相同能量的光子），这种跃迁是严格禁止的。更广泛的影响包括本科生和研究生的教育，以及国际合作和在线教程。

This research focuses on a new, sensitive search for a possible violation of the Bose-Einstein statistics for photons, which uses the methods of laser spectroscopy. The approach is based on a selection rule for two-photon transitions following from the assumption that photons are bosons: such transitions are strictly forbidden for degenerate photons (i.e. photons of the same energy) between states of total angular momentum zero and one. The broader impacts involve the education of both undergraduate and graduate students as well as international collaboration and on-line tutorials.