Round 15: Tossup 16

The continuous decrease of this property is described by the Belavkin equation. This property is possessed by macroscopic phenomena that possess off-diagonal long-range order. In radio systems, a characteristic length for this property is inversely proportional to source bandwidth. Observations of this property occurred when photons were sent through a half-silvered (10[1])mirror in the Hanbury Brown–Twiss experiment. (10[1])The eigenstates of the annihilation operator form a set of “canonical (10[1])states” (10[1])named for this property, (10[1])for which Roy J. Glauber (10[1])won the 2005 Nobel in physics. The loss of this (10[1])property causes wavefunction collapse. (10[4]-5[1])Collimated, (-5[1])monochromatic (10[1])beams with this (10[2])property are (10[2])emitted by lasers. (10[3])For 10 points, (10[1])name this property of waves that have constant phase difference, (-5[1])causing them to interfere. ■END■ (10[1]0[3])

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