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IN a recent communication, Purcell1 has discussed the experiments of Adám, Janóssy and Varga2, Brown and Twiss3, and Brannen and Ferguson4 on photon correlation, and has given the results of a theoretical treatment of the phenomena. Purcell's equation 3 can be obtained from a very simple model which may help to indicate the nature of the physical processes involved.
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SILLITTO, R. Correlation between Events in Photon Detectors. Nature 179, 1127–1128 (1957). https://doi.org/10.1038/1791127a0
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